Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harked back to his defeated Supreme Court plan and crowed: "In one way or another . . . the ends I spoke of-the real objectives . . . have been substantially attained. The attitude of the Supreme Court toward Constitutional questions is entirely changed...
...nineteen-year-old Daily News, 1,738,667 daily and 3,233,407 Sunday readers, has the biggest circulation in the U. S. In a modest way, Publisher Thomason has also emulated this kind of success. In four years, the Times's circulation has grown from 152,813 to 349,855, passing Hearst's morning Herald & Examiner and lacking about 80,000 to equal Hearst's evening American and Colonel Frank Knox's evening News. The Tribune, with a daily circulation of over 825,000, remains Chicago's biggest paper...
...allergic salute," rubbing the nose, is a child's way of showing that he is allergic to some substances and needs medical attention, according to Dr. W. Ambrose McGee of Richmond...
This worries the sanitarians of the Western World. For from Northwestern India by way of Afghanistan spread the first epidemic of Asiatic cholera which Europe knew. It began in 1826, reached Russia in 1830, England in 1831. Another wave spread to Mecca, Egypt, England and, in 1832, to the U. S. Last of successive pandemics touched the U. S. as late as 1911, and the disease has been kept out of the country since only by close medical inspection of every sailor and traveler who enters a U. S. port...
Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding, third son of a Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal...