Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, to become effective retroactively as of Jan. 1. 2. Increases of postal charges, estimated to yield $60,000,000 a year, effective Apr. 15, and consisting, in chief, of an increase from 1c to 2c on postcards; practically no change on second-class mail (newspapers and periodicals) except that the rates on religious, educational, scientific, etc., publications was increased 1/4c a pound to equal the rate on reading matter in other publications; an increase from 1c to 1 1/2c on each two ounces of third-class matter (books, circulars, etc.) ; a service charge of 2c apiece on parcels post...
...consummated more surely by service to one's people than by love. Though they are in love, Judith kills Holofernes in his tent. There is all the declamation and gaily colored scenery requisite to sustain these hours of argument and action. The general combination is conducive to little except definite apathy...
...change, although unexpected, nevertheless failed to elicit selling except to a minor extent in the bond market. It was generally taken to indicate the end of the period of very easy money which has prevailed in Manhattan since last summer; and also the long way that financial and industrial recovery has traveled since that time. Evidently the familiar "business cycle" has not become nonoperative through the plethora of funds. Evidence accumulates that large amounts of credit will be taken up by agricultural efforts this spring to plant large crops at high prevailing prices, and by considerable commercial expansion. Also...
...already standing at 3½, and the other seven banks at 4%. As a result, money was leaving New York at a time when heavy foreign loans were drawing our gold abroad rather heavily. For this reason, the ratio of the N. Y. Bank had fallen to 69.6, while (except for Cleveland at 73.9) all the other bank ratios were 75 or higher. The rise of the New York rate is, therefore, rather an internal readjustment than a new departure in policy or attitude to business...
Your letter page is a very, very human document. The authors of these letters form a sort of zoo of every kind of crank. I, too, am one of the cranks, my mania being your magazine. There is nothing so well worth reading as TIME except, of course, the Bible. You will, no doubt, receive some irate letters about the Hobby Horse Article in your Feb. 23 issue. Some will denounce you for over praising-President Coolidge, some for ridiculing him. My private opinion is that the writer of the article has shown unusual insight and justice in his sketch...