Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past five years, 187,000 volumes and pamphlets have been added to the Harvard College Library, according to figures compiled from Widener statistics recently. On July 1, 1928, the end of the last official Widener year, there were 1,548,500 volumes and pamphlets, whereas five years previously...
"Many companies have been able to sell stocks to the public when new financing was necessary, whereas prior to the last five years, it was customary to finance with bond sales. . . . This enormous expansion in publicly owned securities could not have been accomplished without . . . borrowed money.
According to the statistics 307 fewer undergraduates attempted the September exams this year than in September 1925 during which academic year the system providing for the passing off of the Language Requirements with the attaining of certain marks in certain specified courses was instituted. The decrease is attributed directly to...
"Sir Austen Chamberlain began by regretting that on the two capital naval and military questions the French and British found themselves in diametrically opposed positions. English public opinion believes traditionally that volunteer armies have a defensive character, whereas conscript armies are intended for offensive warfare. On the other hand, he...
To rebut the prevalent wail that man, the individual, has fallen from his former high estate to the status of cog in machine. Historian Van Loon raises considerable doubt as to that former altitude, these present depths. And in a sound exposition of business expansion, Julius Klein recalls that an...