Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already evidenced. The critical situation in the Northwest may, however, produce political pressure on the Reserve to lower its rate. Even the Minneapolis Reserve Bank has a reserve ratio of almost 80%?a very high figure. But the Reserve officials evidently intend to feel their way cautiously, to adopt in part a policy of "watchful waiting." Their greatest fear is inflation; and with our huge unused gold reserves, it is something to be watched...
...club will not at first adopt a definite platform, but will form a medium around which opinions can crystallize, and form a basis for the adoption later of a position that shall be truly representative of Harvard Democratic thought. One object of the club will be to get men prominent in the Democratic party to speak at the University. Next week a drive for membership will be instituted...
Venizelos' father was a merchant and desired him to adopt a commercial career. He was sent to Athens to study law. Some years after, he headed a revolt in Crete against the Turks which was entirely successful. The Turks offered autonomy for Canea, but Venizelos refused, desiring union not of the town of Canea, but of all the island of Crete with Greece. His attitude caused a riot in which he was nearly stabbed. At night when he was asleep his house was set on fire, but he succeeded in escaping...
Daddies. As many chuckles as there are children. The story is negligible, churning out farce and romance by turns arbitrarily. It can be summed up thus: Five bachelors who adopt eight war orphans-one of them a grown girl (Mae Marsh)- are equal to one love affair, plus a dozen spankings. This being the era of the child on the screen, audiences laugh incessantly at the bumptious brats before licking their...
Coach Wachter's players are leaving the Hemenway court for the first time this season, and their success tonight is largely dependent upon the ease with which they adopt themselves to a foreign floor. They are conceded almost an even chance to win, despite Dartmouth's superior preliminary record...