Word: reverting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serve as a credit base. Taking a hint from President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Bennett wrote into his banking bill a clause empowering the central bank to seize any other gold within the borders together with a provision that any profits from eventual devaluation of the Canadian dollar will revert to the Government. The charters of the commercial banks will be renewed but their privilege of note issuance will be gradually curtailed, definitely ended in ten years...
...Dominion" so often that the habit of thinking of them as such has spread throughout the Empire and the World. In law, however, Newfoundland is still a colony, even though a self-governing one. Taking full advantage of this fact the Amulree Report proposed that Newfoundland's Government revert under the Crown to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, which took over in an emergency last month the Government of Malta (TIME...
...yesterday. In its platform the committee stated, "This committee is form- ed for the protection of Harvard Indifference. It feels that pep meetings and other stupid exhibitions are more suited to colleges whose pinciple claim to glory is football excellence. Harvard need not imitate her inferiors. Let us not revert to the silliness of a past era nor descend to the level of the jerkwater. Let us remain gentlemen, and let Harvard remain a place above such callowness." This statement was subscribed to by a committee of 12 students. The students were: John L. Burling '34, Thomas Marvell '35, David...
...school days Mr. Sharp was a prolific contributor to the pulp magazines. The leisurely life in Bermuda appears to have given him a chance to revert to his boyhood hobby. He has already lodged the manuscript of another mystery, The Murder of the Honest Broker, with his publisher...
Because it is what horticulturists call a "sport" there is only one way that Baron Lambeau's Cattleya Gigas Alba can be propagated. Seeds are useless; its seed if sown would revert to the colors of its comparatively worthless parents. But every year or so, depending on the Alba's strength, an expert with a sharp knife can cut off three or four of the pseudo-bulbs that form round its base, make a new plant from them. Baron Lambeau performed this operation several times, keeps his plants in his private hothouses. Not long...