Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge, knowing the unsatisfactory results of compulsory automobile insurance in Massachusetts, has made another suggestion. Apropos the recent movement to lower the car registration fee and have it fixed on a flat basis, the Judge believes that it would be to the State's advantage to permit motorists to earn for themselves the lower registration fee by getting credits based on their own care and their acceptance of responsibility to others, which would be demonstrated by each one carrying public liability insurance. He therefore has suggested that the State ''adopt the policy of allowing a credit...
Tradition, and the fact that the only requirements for a court are a flat surface and plenty of headroom, make armories the appropriate place for badminton. Last week's tournament was held in that of the Naval Reserve. Before the tournament started, officials debated whether or not to accept the entry of Hock Sim Ong, Malay post-graduate student at the University of California who learned badminton when he went to Cambridge on a British Government scholarship. Before it was over, four other contestants had good cause to wish the officials had rejected it because Hock...
...been murdered in his sleep. The murderer had then waited until the daughter came home at 3 a.m. Charles Robinson who lived on the top floor reported, "As I came up the steps leading to the Gedeons' floor [at 2:10 a.m.] I noticed the door of their flat was half open. As I came nearer it closed-slowly and very quietly. But whoever was behind it kept out of sight. It looked as though the person inside had been waiting for someone...
Commercial paper was boosted from f of i% to a flat 1%-first change since April 1934. Bankers' acceptances were hiked not once but twice, bringing the rate to its highest point in three years and slightly above the figure offered by the Federal Reserve Banks ( ½of 1%). However, the Federal Reserve not only refused to up its acceptance buying rate to the open market level but actually bought some bankers' ½ bills, for the first time in more than two years, thus flashing its clear distaste for the strength of the money market. When it increased...
...tour this week, but on the week-end of April 9 and 10 they will return to play an all-Brahms program with Myra Hess, the English pianist, as soloist. The Academic Festival Overture will open the program and will be followed by the Second Pianoforte Concerto in B flat in which Myra Hess will play. Brahms' Second Symphony in D major will close the concert...