Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation by marvelling observers suggested that Senator Caraway had been so carried away he had no idea of what he was saying. The Dr. J. Clarence Sharp he thus addressed proved to be not only a white man but a man even whiter than sandy Senator Caraway-a blue-eyed, pink-&-white blond, an ear, nose & throat specialist of considerable reputation, one of the best "radical mastoid" men in the land, a gentleman of 69 who for years was a familiar figure on the socialite golf links of Piping Rock Club...
...need American ships and American banks for our foreign trade, our need for an army of trained salesmen and employes is more acute. Following academic education it is, of course, necessary to have practical training. If a man doesn't know his product he is lost, even if he can write as many volumes as Sir Walter Scott. The first necessity for a young man engaged in foreign trade is a knowledge of the particular business in which he is employed. . . . We have seized unfairly the commerce of no people. We have taken no mean advantage of the extremity...
...North German Lloyd and the Hamburg American Line is entirely out of the question, and moreover that such a transaction would not be advantageous. Neither company would have reached its present development if it had not maintained its independence. This independence the General Directors are determined to preserve, even against possible pressure from without...
With a nice flair for the appropriate statistic, the German Railway Company cheerfully went on to reveal last week that even if the public had fooled them it had still bought one billion tickets during the year. "Seventeen printing shops print most of the tickets," continued the chatty announcement, "but we have installed 1,650 ticket-printing apparatuses in our most important ticket offices which can be instantly adjusted to print any ticket required, together with any price...
...eclipse has been accurately plotted, and Slocum has been receiving reports yearly as to weather conditions along this path for a period of about two weeks on either side of the date on which the eclipse is to take place. This preliminary report showed the chances to be about even, and he named several towns along the course of the eclipse which were most likely to see blue sky on that...