Word: accountancy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance, the "welfare state" turns out to be a minor offender in the big 42.4 billion dollar total. National defense, foreign commitments, veterans' benefits, and payments on the national debt (nearly all results of the cold war or World War II) account for 71 percent of the budget. n 1939, the last "normal" year, these four made up only 29 percent of expenditures...
...changed all that. At Choate, in 1931, Teacher Fitts took spindling, six-foot Student Laughlin in hand, introduced him to the work of such dedicated modern versifiers as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings. Laughlin, who until then had hardly cracked a book on his own account, burst forthwith into creative bloom, decided to bypass the steel business and devote his life to writing...
Biblical scholars believe the scroll is the lost book of Lamech, Noah's father, which may give an account of Noah's early life and his preparations for the flood. The job of unrolling the scroll is expected to take six months...
...average student in the academic year 1949 borrowed ten books from Lamont. He borrowed 14 from Widener the year before, and took only 11 in 1939. Librarians think an increased seriousness in the college student and the incorporation of the Boylston and Union libraries into Lamont partly account for the trend of these statistics...
...Sinai Peninsula last week, Egypt's King Farouk, 29, who recently divorced Farida ("Peerless"), his queen of eleven years, was behaving remarkably like David. Farouk was getting ready to marry again. There are several non-synoptic versions of how this came to pass, and the most reliable account is this...