Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point of order cut Mr. Harris short. One house of Congress may not discuss the other critically...
Last month appeared the 1928 financial statements of many a U. S. corporation, offering stock market students an opportunity to discuss the much-debated ratio between the earnings of a stock and its market quotations. In bygone days, when bulls were not so fat and bears were not so lean, conservatives estimated that a stock which earned $10 a share should be selling at $100, or ten times its earnings-per-share. In recent years this ratio has been considered extremely backward. Thus, in March, 1928, John Jacob Raskob announced that General Motors should rise to 15 times its earnings...
...week an observation post in the Astor Hotel, which stands plunk at the Broadwayest part of Broadway (44th St.). It was theatre time, and something more than 150,000 people were proceeding with various speeds in Mr. Whalen's general direction. But almost before they had time to discuss him (as most of them did) they found themselves seated before curtains, twitteringly awaiting visions of fair women or the croak of tragedy. This unprecedented condition-the theatres filling on time-was caused by Commissioner Whalen's having resolved "to solve the traffic problem...
...years (the pound sterling was down to $3.20 when he took office, is now back to its normal $4.85) his movements arouse rumor, speculation. Financial sharps reported that he intended to visit Governor George L. Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, surmised that the two Governors might discuss some method of preventing further movements of gold from London to New York with out resorting to raising the British bank rate...
...first lecture, "Karolingische and ottinische Renaissance," will deal with Medieval Latin and German literature, a field in which Professor Naumann first experimented. The second, "Geschichte des Puppenspiels in Deutschland," will discuss folk literature. In the third lecture Professor Naumann will discuss, "Rainer Maria Rilke and der Ubergang vom Impressionismus zum Expressionismus," which will treat contemporary German literature...