Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Expectation. The frequent emphasis on the phrase "capacity to pay" led to the general belief that a moratorium of five to ten years would be proposed with interest thereafter at 2% to 3% or thereabouts. The intention of both parties, however, seems to be to provide that Italy must pay "every cent of the principal" over a period of 60 or 70 years. This emphasis on the payment of principal is, of course, merely so much pious twaddle. Assuming that a ten-year moratorium is granted and that during that time the U. S. has to pay an average...
...only to resign and enlist as a private in the Artillery Corps of the Regular Army where he remained until the end of the War. The job of Solicitor General consists chiefly in representing the Government before the courts in certain more im- portant cases. The Solicitor General makes frequent appearances before the Supreme Court. When Mr. Mitchell went before the court last week, he scanned the faces of nine Justices and certainly recognized one of them-the face of Mr. Pierce Butler of Minnesota- certainly - because Mr. Pierce Butler before he was raised to the Supreme Court, used...
...When a man is very sick or seriously injured, he is sent to the Henry Ford Hospital, some three miles away?not in a modern comfortable ambulance. The too frequent calls of the ambulance would not look well in public, and so a Ford sedan is fitted up with secret doors in the back and just a driver's seat and space for a stretcher...
Died. Lucien Guitry, 65, famed French actor, father of Dramatist Sacha Guitry; in Paris. He often acted with Sarah Bernhardt. His fear of mal de mer prevented him from carrying out frequent plans for coming...
...often been disputed, but is now established as a historical fact. Newhaven and Princeton were the homes of the Bulldog and Tiger totems respectively, and these wild bands fought incessantly over the ground that had been formerly consecrated to learning. Evidence of totems at Cambridge is lacking;--there is frequent mention of a Crimson College, but this refers to a Catholic school for girls. (The name originates in a local euphemism for the "scarlet woman"). The remains of a large library may also account for the non-existence of a totem...