Word: break
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must have seemed very much as if the people were exacting usurious interest from their Government. In the last five years he has sold Treasury certificates bearing as low .as 2¾%. True, last October he was also obliged to pay 4¾%, but in December, coincident with a break in the stock market he was able to market an issue at 4¼%, although there was not the customary oversubscription of double or more. The March offering was taken to indicate that the Treasury does not expect "cheaper" money for some months. Last week the Treasury made public...
Texas Corp. (Texaco gasoline and oil helped Capt. Hawks & Mechanic Grubb break coast-to-coast flight record): $45,073,879 as against...
...Midshipmen won the foils event 7 to 2 and took all four of the bouts with the sabre. With the epee, Harvard gained an even break...
...been such a terribly sad one for me," wrote the 26-year-old princess. "It almost seems strange that any kind of happiness could come into my life again. But Georgie is such a dear. The great sorrow we shared has made our bond a union that nothing can break...
...life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes us only laugh - Executive Editor of the World, always is five or six hours late for break fast, luncheon, and dinner, no matter what time they are scheduled for. What he consumes instead of meals - a few steak sandwiches with onions, a few dill pickles, and a few apples - cannot be called meals...