Word: extention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because they apply to products exported and not imported, and are on the books only to throw dust in the farmers' eyes, the chief center of attack on the new tariff is in the international complications arising from it. With Europe in debt to the United States to the extent of many billion dollars it would not seem to require Economics A in order to realize the need of an American market for European goods. Whatever other intelligent way is there to move such huge sums across the Atlantic? Certainly to continue to drain Europe of gold is a policy...
...Peirce's and on Harvard Square. The organizers of the movement acted with the two-fold purpose of protesting against Mayor Nichols' actions, and of endorsing the Guild in its presentation of the play in Quincy on Monday evening. They hope that the petition will offset to a large extent the attacks which have been made on the Guild and "Strange Interlude" by various members of the local clergy...
...London and Wall Street reached the lowest low in ten years: approximately 50⅞? an ounce. A month ago Chinese speculators held approximately 20,000,000 ounces of silver, at the end of last week they had sold 50,000,000, were apparently on the short side to the extent of 30,000,000 ounces. No El Dorado but an El Argento is China. It is the only important country on a silver basis currency. For many a year it has been one of the chief markets for U. S., Canadian, South American silver. But lately silver prices have decreased...
...extremes are each modifying the other. Harvard is not so medieval as the Tribune editor would have us think and the great Western universities, with their curricula covering world knowledge and world experimentation, are not dissipating their efforts to the extent that New England pedagogues imagine...
That the experiment will be interesting no one questions. That it will be successful from the point of view of the student is naturally still highly problematical, a full year before it goes into effect. The final form that it will take depends to a large extent on the class of 1933, it will surely be more interesting if the class enters it intelligently interested and not passively acquiescent...