Word: reverting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discharged into the sea 400 miles north of its former mouth. Last week the Government experts, prowling anxiously up and down the Yellow River's dikes below Kaifeng. finally telegraphed a nation-wide warning that "almost inevitably" the retaining walls will give way and the Yellow Dragon will revert, roaring and thundering, to its old course...
...equal to its rental value would be imposed on all land not immediately occupied by its owner. Such a levy would deprive absentee landlords of their rent. Land would tend to revert to the State which would parcel it out among workers and farmers...
...cuts saving $118,000,000 loosed a storm of Democratic abuse against President Hoover. South Carolina's Byrnes charged that the President had agreed to go along with the Economy Committee on the pay cut plan but at the last minute his "pride of opinion" caused him to revert to his furlough scheme and to succeed in inducing the Senate to reverse itself and adopt his less economical proposal. 'The bill has been wrecked," cried Senator Byrnes, "and it has been wrecked by the President...
...weeks ago there were three important evening papers in Brooklyn,* two of them published by outsiders?Frank Ernest Gannett's Eagle, Paul Block's Standard Union. Last week there were two, both home-owned. Chain-Publisher Gannett a month ago had let the revered Eagle revert to the Hesters and Gunnisons, oldtime Brooklyn families from whom he had bought it. Last week Chain-Publisher Block sold his Standard Union to the up-&-coming Brooklyn daily Times with which it was immediately consolidated. The Times's publisher is Fremont Carson ("Monty") Peck, 33, who inherited the paper from his father...
...Harvard does not appear in the will, which was a one paragraph document with its terms embodied in five lines. The fund was established under separate agreement whereby Mr. Robinson was to receive the interest from a $1,500,000 fund during his life, while the principle was to revert to the University upon his death...