Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reconstruction Congresses and men of small education. Ten, however, went to college; five were lawyers; others were preachers, teachers, planters. Seven were born slaves. Both the Senators were elected in Mississippi. Senator Hiram R. Revels filled an unexpired term in 1870-71. Senator Blanche K. Bruce served the full term of 1875-81. When last a Negro's voice was heard in Congress it was pleading chiefly to make lynching a Federal offence. Should Chicago's De Priest reach the House, doubtless he will take up this plea where North Carolina's White left off, although...
Watts put up the beat at this point and his heavier crew began to forge ahead rapidly. They overhauled the Juniors at the Henley distance and finished the full race a length and a quarter in the van. The time was ten minutes and seven seconds for the winners and five seconds more for the Lawrence boat. A heavy head wind slowed up both crews...
...Happiness clerks had been thinking of how to avoid disappointing customers who, because they see candy counters, soda fountains, lunch counters and, in five stores, complete restaurants, expect a full line of drugs. Customers whisper, their faces impassive as possible, hygienic and illegal requests to the Happiness clerks. The clerks on such frequent occasions are embarrassed. Frankly they explain that at their counters they have only bromo seltzer, aromatic spirits of ammonia, bicarbonate of soda and epsom salts, nothing more...
Multimillion-Share Days. Interrupted finally was the month of full trading days during which members of the New York Stock Exchange traded 3,000,000 or more shares. From March 9 through April 23 (holidays & Saturdays excluded) 18 days were 3,000,000-share days; 13 were 4,000,000-share days. March 30 registered 4.759,300 shares, the record...
...bank; and President John J. Pulleyn knows that even small depositors calculate and resent the loss of interest on savings they withdraw before monthly, quarterly or semi-annual interest dates. Therefore President Pulleyn's bank last week began to pay, and claimed it was the first to pay, full interest for every day savings are on deposit. In the cases of some small accounts, the bank's bookkeeping cost will be more than its profits. But in the 77 years of its existence the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank has found that expensively small deposits become profitably large deposits...