Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The action of the Bank of England in raising its rediscount rate from 4% to 5% indicates the financial supremacy of the U. S., and foreshadows vigorous efforts of the British to challenge it in the near future by getting the pound sterling back on a gold basis this year...
In Manhattan, Herbert J. ("Kid") Yates, 47 years, 165 Ibs., President of The Consolidated Film Co., No, 729 Seventh Ave., posted a bet of $50,000 that he could lick any business man of his age or over. H. A. Hallenbeck, Manhattan publisher, accepted the challenge, deposited his check for...
J. B. Emory 21, and S. H. Humes 2L, known as the "Mutt and Jeffs," together with Paris Fletcher 1L and L. T. Wade 2L, or the "Appleknockers," are the Law School cycle aces. Each pair possesses a two-seated machine and have proclaimed their proficiency in the sport by...
Laying the blame for the resent assault on him in Charles' Lunch to a band of gangsters headed by an archbully, Herr Engel in a letter to the CRIMSON appeals to the forces of law and order to stop the plot before it is carried out. In an unpublishable appendix...
After avowing that times, styles, and "lines" have changed, "A Professor" discards the fallacy of the status quo, and tries to see new conditions through new eyes. The indeconcies of the modern "young person" are indecent only to the middle aged. Youth has new standards of conduct and decency; he...