Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarkably well written and handsomely made volume is "The Land of Haunted Castles". The book is beautifully illustrated and presents an intriguing table of contents. Published at $6.00, it is a great bargain...
...many cases one half, or less of the original published price. There is scarcely a field of literature that isn't represented. Many of the books are generously and sumptuously illustrated. This, then is one of the great chances of the year for book lovers to secure at bargain prices volumes of outstanding merit...
Here is Turkish humor with a vengeance. Kemal suggests to the rest of Europe with shrewd wit: "You may debate, and argue, and bargain, but I shall neither hear nor understand you." And this is exactly the attitude which the Turkish Nationalists have assumed since they burst in through Europe's back door by means of the Mudania Pact in October...
...this we agree. The present courses seem to be a compromise designed to meet the needs of both the concentrator and the distributor; with the concentrator having a little the best of the bargain. The chief objection of the man who is merely distributing lies in the fact that he finds in such courses little of scientific method, less of the philosophy of science, and much of the drudgery. Any remedy, in consequence, must offer less drudgery, more philosophy, and a rather more definite idea of scientific method...
...events, according to a recent article published in the New York Times, the odds seem rather in favor of the Government. Encouraged by state propaganda and the prospect of exchanging paper of somewhat uncertain value for flour at a good bargain, the Russian certificate-holders bid fair to turn into the bread loan something like a half of the enormous number of paper rubles now in circulation. Just what the Soviet Government intends to do further if this process of deflation is successful remains somewhat obscure. Probably the treasury officials will start all over again the wholesale printing of irredeemable...