Word: ruralization
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...Biblical tenth of produce but at a rate of less than $2 per acre per year. About ?3,000,000 annually is collected in tithes, two-thirds in "Queen Anne's Bounty," an organization set up in that good lady's reign (1702-14) to support rural clergy. Of the thousands of husbandmen who in the past four years have rebelled against tithe-paying (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933), none have been more stubborn than the men of Kent. Last February a London Express man found scores of them locked & barred in their homes, ready to repel bailiffs...
...other Harvard entrance plans (Plan A, Plan B, and the previous upper seventh plan for certain schools in rural communities and small cities and towns which do not prepare regularly for the College Board examinations) still hold. and there is no intention on the part of Harvard to alter this program...
...reaching economic idea. Last week he had extraordinary scope for such ideas, for he was about to carry out the land-use portions of the President's latest relief program. His cut was tentatively set at $350,000,000 for erosion control, reforestation, etc.; $100,000,000 for rural electrification; $500,000,000 for rural rehabilitation-nearly a billion dollars. And he could have practically the whole U. S. to play with...
...number of us voted New Deal but this is antagonizing rural voters as nothing has done for many years...
...were trifling. It saddened him to think what a resourceful criminologist Scotland Yard lost when he donned the cloth. As a consolation he steeped himself in the lore of the underworld. Consequently he was thoroughly equipped to deal with the situation when he and his sister walked into a rural public house on the heels of an ingenious jewel robbery...