Word: calls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slow, restricted process of immigration, confined to guaranteed employment, that the Dominions were founded and began their splendid history. . . . Our British workpeople . . . who want to try their luck in the Dominions . . . want to use their skill in that spirit of adventure which stirred in the old pioneers. Yet the call for adventurers does not come across to us now, as it used to in the old days. . . . By all means let the Dominion Governments get men from here to do agricultural work . . . but . . . the Dominions cannot rest on agriculture alone, nor do all these going out from England want...
...Crown Prince, to India, to China, to Japan and home around Africa, with a momentous visit to Mother Congo. Memories of Congoland germinated in the shrewd brain of Uncle Leopold and flowered when he became King. The master move of his long and wily reign was to call the International Conference of 1876 at Brussels, where he piously proposed to the Great Powers a program for "civilizing" the Congo and suppressing slavery there. The expense of these good works was to be generously defrayed from His Majesty's privy purse. Not until a generation later did the Powers fully...
...needed, a corporation usually does one of two things. It may bury the money, either in gilt-edged securities, yielding from 3 to 4%, or in its bank account, where it draws 2% as a commercial deposit. Or it may ask the bank to lend the money out on call, at interest rates ranging from 5 to 10%. As the bank asks only a small commission for this service and generally assumes all the risk, the conversion of surpluses into call loans has become a popular feature of corporation financing. In the last year, the total of such loans...
...before a ghost? . . . And from the mountains, came reluctant stragglers wondering just who their enemies were: "Dunno's I rightly know just who they air," He admitted finally, "But 'tain't the British. It's some trash-lot of furriners, that's shore. They call 'em Yankees near as I can make it. ..." but he was content that his neighbors, of long standing feud, were with the enemy Yanks. And there were others, non-fighters: The congressmen came out to see Bull Run, The congressmen who like free shows and spectacles, They brought their...
...fits, better than most, the gum-chewers' idea of a movie queen. They can call her a senorita because she has one-half Spanish blood in her. They can say she has famed "It" because she has often appeared on the screen without very many clothes (Male and Female). They can suspect her of fickle loves (Sprinter Charles Paddock). They know she is ath-a-let-tic by the way she bounces around on the screen. She may be classified somewhere between a capable actress and a capable clown...