Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Mather will probably cover the various theories of the formation of the earth, whether from nebular matter in space; or perhaps by a breaking off from the sun owing to a tidal wave created by a passing comet, the Jeans theory. He will present the various conjectures and discoveries about the formation of the earth's shell of rock...
...whosoever desires to do so look upon my wife!" he challenged. "Let them convince themselves with their own eyes of her non-Jewish origin!" "WE DEMAND!" Unable, like the Roosevelt regime, to show an upturn in national business, the Hitler Government continued to ride last week the great wave of its successful propaganda, continued to rely more and more heavily on spry little, clubfooted. Dr. Goebbels. Nazi fanatics for a "pure race" contend, in the case of other Germans, that a club foot proves "bad blood," but Dr. Goebbels...
...people: A wife who has waited seven years for her husband to return from Western lands discovers that he has been educated out of her world. An old mother slowly learns that her new-fangled son begrudges her a place in his home. A poor farmer, caught in a wave of revolution, finds that his share of the mystical millennium is small. The father of a family marooned by a flood, starving to death, remembers that girls are worth less than boys...
...farm, mortgages, $2,000,000,000 for home mortgages. Half a billion dollars was voted for direct unemployment relief. The Civilian Conservation Corps was created to put 275,000 idle young men to work in the woods. All these measures were desperate defenses, bulwarks against the immediate tidal wave of economic demoralization...
Unless deposit guarantee produces a wave of failures among banks that cannot get into the system, thereby forcing repeal of the law, national bankers have no way of avoiding the tax except by leaving the Federal Reserve system. This some sound banks in financial centres would doubtless do except for the numerous disadvantages which nonmembership imposes. Believing that the only hope for the success of deposit guarantee is that the Federal Government may be able to force bankers to be not only good but wise, commercial bankers found themselves standing between the Devil and Deposit Guarantee...