Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another are Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev (Houghton's collection of works of Russian authors is the strongest outside of the Soviet Union, and, says William H. Bond, Curator of Manuscripts, "May be the best in the world for all we know...
...bulk of state funds will go for the requirements of an exploding population: schools, mental hospitals, highways, new buildings, welfare-and interest costs on bond issues floated to pay for major projects already begun. Much of the increase will go to take care of schoolchildren and longer-living indigent old people, who pay no taxes themselves...
...prime rates. Said Hanover Bank's President R. E. McNeill Jr.: "I would not be surprised to see an increase in the discount rate. There is a high level of business, inventories are down, money is fairly tight, and banks are well invested." With higher rates ahead, U.S. bonds had another sinking spell last week, reached the lowest level in years; many Treasury issues now yield more than 4%. Furthermore, future Treasury issues may meet only a tepid reception, because Government bond yields are now bumping against the top legal limit of 4¼%. As the bond market...
...arms, the rebels had money to spare. Collections in the U.S. came to $25,000 a month. Rich Havana sympathizers donated as much as $50,000 each, and the dues from the Havana underground yielded another $25,000 monthly. Contributions and nonredeemable "bond issues" in Venezuela raised $200.000. Companies operating in eastern Cuba began paying "taxes" to the rebels. As a hedge against the future. Sugar Baron Julio Lobo, one of Cuba's richest men, kicked...
...bond between Poteet and Lolita. the nymphet of the bestselling novel by Vladimir Nabokov (TIME, Sept. 1), seems even more vague than the "kissin' cousin" kinship Poteet claims for Steve, who dutifully has made her his ward. Poteet plays polo and coaches basketball, is always chaperoned when she travels with Steve. Square-jawed Steve gives his ward only the most brotherly kisses, has even punished her with a sound paddling. In contrast, Lolita confines her athletics to the bedroom, romps from motel to motel across the nation with her stepfather Humbert Humbert...