Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...most opportune time for the government to help their ex-soldiers. I know from my banking association with a great number of these veterans in this community, that right now they are right up against it. A great number have already borrowed the limit on these certificates...
Legislation. "The Congress has before it legislation partially completed in respect to Muscle Shoals, bus regulation, relief of congestion in the courts, reorganization of border patrol in prevention of smuggling, law enforcement in the District of Columbia. . . . It is desirable that these measures should be completed. . . . There are a number of questions which, if time does not permit action, I recommend should be placed in consideration . . . for subsequent action." Here the President briefly outlined the following subjects: 1) regulation of interstate electrical power; 2) consolidation of railways; 3) revision of the anti-Trust laws; 4) repeal of the capital-gains...
Secretary Hurley announced that the commissioned, warrant-officer and enlisted strength of the Regular Army, exclusive of Philippine Scouts, was 130,910 on June 30. About 35% of this number were on duty outside the continental limits of the U. S. Enlisted soldiers were divided as follows...
Such a change Professor Huntington attributes to the discovery among a large and increasing number of people that higher mathematics is not only useful but lovely to look upon. Commenting in the growing usefulness of mathematics, he referred particularly to its relation to long-distance communication. "In the field of long-distance telephony," he said, "mathematics has led the way to inventions which have greatly increased the distance the voice can be carried over a wire of given size. If it were not for mathematics you could not send a long-distance message today. The development of the radio itself...
Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will give his annual Christmas reading at the Union on Tuesday, December 16, at 8.30 o'clock in the Main Dining Hall. No late-comers will be allowed to enter the room. Due to the excessively large number who usually attend Professor Copeland's readings, the attendance will be limited to the capacity of the Dining Room. Tickets will be given at the news stand beginning a week before the reading. Professor Copeland has not yet announced the titles of his reading...