Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also, a pertinent question arises as to whether M. Poincare's stand on the tariff is not derived from a desire to bargain for a safeguard clause* in the debt disaccord with the U. S., which the French Parliament refuses to ratify...
...help it, but he soon found himself in possession of an odd million dollars. Life took on new aspects. A number of people became interested in Mr. Barnett. A white lady, one Anna Laura Lowe, mar ried him in Oklahoma and again in Missouri to tie up the bargain tightly. She persuaded him to give her $550,000 (of which her lawyer received...
...demonstrations, the Daytonians muttered and scowled. Said their police chief, "A dirty, backalley trick." Their mayor, Allen C. McDonald, said: ". . . Dayton will not soon forget." Said a sarcastic department store, five days after, using Colonel Lindbergh's visit for self-advertising to draw attention to their "spirit of economy" bargain sale: "There will be no disappointments in this demonstration...
...natural order of events, the commercial careers of most of them are bounded on the one side by a graduation exercise and on the other by a wedding ring, or possibly a baby carriage. But those women workers whose activities are concerned with higher things than chocolate-dipping, bargain counters and the touch system, refer to their careers rather than to their jobs and are deeply concerned over any " discrimination" shown against the woman worker on account...
Natives attributed the eruption to Pele, Hawaiian goddess of Volcanoes. Although Hawaiian mythology relates that Pele long ago agreed never to let the lava-flow menace Hilo, the natives, not altogether confident that the goddess would keep her bargain, sought to appease her last week with offerings of fruit and berries...