Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next judge might almost be anybody, right down to the man in the street, though of course there are lots of people who it won't be. But it doesn't really make much difference who it is. Supreme Court appointees aren't supposed to know anything; all they have to do is agree with the man who appoints them...
...Though still to be found in its exclusively Australian habitat, the duckbill is nonextant as a foreign captive. In 1922, after spending nine years and $1,400, New York Zoological Park's deliberate William Reid Blair carried to The Bronx the only live platypus ever to leave Australia. It. tried for 49 days to adapt itself to an elaborate man-made labyrinth. Then it died, was stuffed and taken to the Newark. N. J. museum...
What the Eagle strike seemed to prove was that a publisher could get out his paper without the Guild, but that even though he escapes the Guild's full demands, the possible financial loss is terrific. Last week many Guild members thought they had so clipped the Eagle's wings it would soon be in receivership. Mr. Goodfellow's retort: "If there was the remotest possibility, do you think I would spend $30,000 in severance...
Carloadings are a primary index of business conditions. Still more primary are stomach-loadings. But unemployment, though the bitterest index of bad times, is not the best, for the U. S. has never found a satisfactory way of measuring it. Last week, however, Government estimates of unemployment increases, varying widely in figures, were in complete basic agreement: unemployment is growing by leaps & bounds. Leon Henderson, onetime NRA economist, estimated in a study made for WPA that 2,000,000 workers have lost their jobs since September 1, that between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 more will...
...Though not every churchgoer knows it, there are at least ten religious concepts upon which broad-minded Protestants, Jews and Catholics can agree, believe...