Word: handed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bank. Or he might be willing to pay several times the face value for a Pottery card that would help him build up a Pottery monopoly. A smart Stock Exchange operator might be a tremendous success at the game, which resolves itself largely into clever trading. On the other hand, the better the game becomes as a game, the less effective it becomes as a course in finance. It does illustrate, in an elementary manner, the fact that a bank can issue more notes than it has gold to support and also the fact that coal and iron and manufactured...
...months, however, to increase the fee exacted for additional courses, focuses attention on the underlying reason for the incidental source of income. The fee comes as a natural consequence in the case of a student desiring more courses than are ordinarily allowed under present tuition rates; on the other hand upon the conscientious man who prefers to enlist his efforts in bearing the brunt of concentration during his early college career, the fee falls with undue severity. No well defined arguments can be conceived to support a scheme which makes the price of the same education more expensive...
...ministry gather ill-fame. Tanaka, "the frank, magnanimous, indulgent and unreserved," as his countrymen frequently referred to him, found it hard to believe his "Seiyukai soldiers" could betray him thus. Most crushing denunciation of his régime fell three days before his death, when his right-hand man, Heikichi Ogawa, vice president of Seiyukai, was put to prison, after his bank account showed 2,000,000 illicit yen ($960,000) purported to be derived from promotion of private railways projects while he was Minister of Railways...
...spirit stayed on. Lying shrouded in her bier, she blinked an eye owlishly when he bent to kiss her hand. Later at his barracks she came to him, hissed the secret of the cards and disappeared. Lisa disappeared too, to the bottom of the Neva because he would not heed her warnings against the gaming-table. There he twice won fabulous sums, but the third card was wrong. It was the Queen of Spades instead of the Ace of Hearts and on it grinned the ghoulish face of the old countess, urging him to his suicide...
...Minister David Nation of Warrensburg, Kan., the daughter went insane and Carry Nation herself became very peculiar. Every night at bed-time Mrs. Nation told her troubles to God, dragging herself around the room on her knees. At times she felt herself suspended over a precipice by a heavenly hand; at other times she saw two snakes. She heard wings beating, saw angels and devils, met Jesus in the basement. A proud reminiscence: "I was often considered crazy on the subject of religion." At length she heard a voice exclaim from the heavens: "Take something in your hands and throw...