Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would not preserve "England's word as good as her bond!" Sir Austen Chamberlain (with a Victorian shudder): "That is the only inference that can be drawn from Snowden's words." Mr. MacDonald: "A totally false inference! I have always declared that the American debt settlement was bad; but inside this House and out of it I have said that so far as we are concerned, until that agreement
...night undisturbed and on the morrow he, Rafael, would surrender himself for slaughter. Rafael and Vitoria had their night. Before dawn the revolution broke. Hernandez was shot. Sergeant-Dictator appointed Rafael general in his place. The wise old soldier had been predicting revolution: "To be governed at all is bad enough, but to be governed by the same man for one, two, three, years-that is more than any one ought to be asked to endure. Always the same face, always the same proclamations, always the same way of stealing money. It is like having only one woman." An effervescent...
...remark, yet apparently not unjustified. The report showed a loss from operations of $960,698. Among expenses were some $860,000 interest on bonds, $700,000 local taxes, $1,000,000 repairs, $337,000 for new machinery, $95,000 for moving machinery from Fitchburg to Manchester. Other items were bad debts and outlay for printing new securities. "Making up the income account in the way prescribed by the government," said the report, "the result of the year's operations is a net loss before depreciation of $583,000, and, in addition, there is a charge...
Last week these various bad pennies turned up at a stockholders' meeting of Schulte Retail Stores Corp. The meeting was extremely raucous, with President David A. Schulte centre of the storm. Hecklers maintained that Schulte directors were selling their Schulte stock and that Wall Street knew that Schulte earnings were shrinking before Schulte stockholders had any suspicion that all was not well. To them Mr. Schulte replied that no common dividends might be paid for the rest of the year, that if cut pricing prevailed there might be no dividends for the next five years, that...
Because of at bad fifth inning in which Charles Devens '32, the Freshman pitcher, allowed four runs, the 1932 baseball team lost its second successive game when it was defeated by the Worcester Academy team by a 5 to 1 score at the Soldiers Field diamond Saturday afternoon...