Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave up what you never could have gotten anyway ! " shouted back Chancellor Snowden. "No reply has been made to my arguments. . . . But if you have started talking of sacrifices I will tell you of sacrifices! . . . Great Britain has a War debt now more than twice the War debt of any other nation...
...steady Scot. The full staggering power of Chancellor Snowden's punches was not felt until Mr. MacDonald officially declared: "In view of the statements so widely read on the Continent that Mr. Snowden is bluffing, I want to make it perfectly clear that the claims he is making that Great Britain has now reached the limit of bearing unfair burdens have all of our support...
Among the great days that mark a British sportsman's calendar-"Derby Day," "The Grand National," "Gold Cup Day," "Boat Race Day"-none is more important than "The Twelfth." By law and tradition mid-August is the time set apart for the shooting of the game red grouse. To celebrate "The Twelfth" last week, brokers, brewers, baronets and belted Earls set off with some sixteen pieces of luggage each to join fashionable grouseparties on Scotch moors...
Such a step would put a heavy strain on British industry. Legitimate and necessary business borrowing within Great Britain would be regrettably curtailed by so high a rate. When the news flashed from Manhattan that the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank had unexpectedly boosted its rediscount rate a full percent, to 6%, it was clear that something must be said or done...
...come to power in London a Cabinet of Laborites who believe that, though Britain must continue to police Egypt's Suez Canal (route to India, "spinal column of the empire"),* still it should be possible to allow Egyptians substantial freedom in the Nile valley and autonomous rule in such great cities as Alexandria and Cairo...