Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Half the $100,000,000 international bond issue on the basis of which the Belgian franc was stabilized last week (see p. 16) was offered in Manhattan by a syndicate headed by the house of Morgan and the Guaranty Trust...
...heavenly types of their respective boroughs. To two other asteroids Professor Shapley assigned the names Arequipa and Mandeville, commemorating the branches of the College Observatory. A personal touch is given to the general christening by the naming of three tiny bodies after Dr. Metcalf, Professor G. E. Bond, the first director of the Observatory, and the late Professor E. C. Pickering, director for 40 years...
...part, and we think this reflects the views of the great majority of New York alumni we are not keon for a game with Harvard. There is nothing in common between us and we would much rather see a game with Princeton with whom we have a closer bond due to several Michigan alumni being on the faculty, their trainer, Keene Fitzpatrick, formerly being at Michigan, etc. If we are going to break into the so-called "Big Three" let us tie up with Princeton, who incidently might give us real opposition. The Michigan Gothamite. October...
...jiggling up and down a fortnight ago, bobbed more violently last week. There was a definite downward trend. One "combined average" of prices estimated the general drop on the New York Stock Exchange at 2.93 points, the lowest since the 3.89 drop March 26, when many speculators were wrung. Bond prices rose in usual antithesis to stock drops. No underlying cause is yet discernible for this situation, especially since 250 leading U. S. corporations earned in aggregate $568,000,000 the first half of this year. This, according to the American Bankers Association Journal, is 21% more than...
...spite of the evidence presented to the contrary in Mencken's Green Book of Aphorisms, one can rationally suppose that the genus homo Americanus, who is so used to gathering meaning from ordinary tables, box scores and bond quotation lists will prove equal to the task of supporting an annual change of time. At any rate the people have received a new right of untold possibilities, for now they can set their clocks when and where they choose with no fear of chiding from a law-stricken conscience...