Word: discountable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite different in character and takes place after the war in a private office at Sheffield, lives up to the preceding one, the Prologue and Act I lagged rather badly. The fault lay in the clumsy manipulation of their business by some of the actors. However, a generous discount should be allowed since several parts, notably in Act I, represent characters old enough to be the players' grandsires. To be sure, that is an obstacle insurmountable in any dramatic enterprise by an undergraduate organization, yet it scarcely accounts for the consistently bad make-ups in last night's production...
...ardent support of such famed Chicagoans as William Ruggles Dawes, Silas Hardy Strawn, Julius Rosenwald and Frank Jo seph Loesch. He kept his campaign on a nice, colorless plane. He harped on police reform, aid to the jobless, reduced taxes. But voters took his promises at a discount because his own record was that of a routine politician who had risen to the top of his party. When Thompson assailed him as "that pushcart peddler," he promptly organized a parade of pushcart peddlers who vowed to vote for him. Plump and precise, bespectacled and benevolent, he kept repeating: "Chicago needs...
...victory was what newspaper straw polls last week indicated Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak, Democratic nominee for Mayor of Chicago, would win over Republican Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson in next week's municipal election. But three factors put a discount on this political forecast: 1) the straw-polling journals (the Tribune and Daily News) were noisily campaigning for Nominee Cermak; 2) Thompson henchmen would not fool with ballots that did not count; 3) the city's "best people" now supporting Nominee Cermak might go golfing on Election...
...often economists are prone to discount political injustice and ascribe the apparent success of Soviet policies to the soundness of the ideas involved rather than the method used to enforce these ideas. The question remains open as to how much of the success is due to the plans, and how much to the shooting! Personally, I do not believe the communistic economic system can be used elsewhere with success, because it is fallacious on the political side. To my mind liberty is far to dear a price to pay for economic progress...
Informally the Treasury "advised" holders of such paper that they can sell it at a heavy discount through the Mexican Bank Liquidation Commission...