Word: highest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarterly financing interest rate was above the Federal Reserve bank rediscount rate (5%). A year ago a similar loan was put out by the U. S. at 3⅞% whereas in 1924 the Government was able to procure money in the public market at 2¾%. The highest "war" rate was 6%. This issue of Treasury certificates, dated June 15. was smaller than the actual needs of the U. S. Reason: the House and Senate have lately passed legislation to authorize the Treasury to borrow on non-interest bearing bills sold below...
...member of the Institut de France, is, theoretically the highest honor that the French Republic can pay its painters, writers, musicians, sculptors, scientists and occasionally statesmen, warriors. Every October the 200 members assemble and occupy their armchairs in the great Renaissance hall of the College Mazarin to assert their own dignity and listen to the learned speeches of their colleagues. Each member owns an elaborate Napoleonic costume, of tail coat, knee breeches, white-plumed cocked hat and sword. But despite all the formalities and trappings of membership, Institut de France no longer receives the respect from French artists which...
With due solemnity Peru's highest notables, scholars, soldiers, officials and athletes marched into Lima's great Alameda Descalzos last fortnight to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Character Day. to receive medals and decorations "for distinguished character." As national holidays go, Character Day is unique. The hero it celebrates is still alive, still a hero...
...Significance is bitterly condensed in two sentences. At the Front, murder, "that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fell, becomes our highest aim." The other sentence. "Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades?words, words, but they hold the horror of the world...
...obtained usually by a man who does not need it badly. A student who comes here and has his way paid by thrifty parents to the extent that he need not work at all outside of school is able to make the Dean's List and live in the highest of bourgeois comfort. But what of the man who must earn his way without the aid from home? He carries one or sometimes two jobs on the side, rushes from his work to his books, and from his books to his exams. He never has an opportunity to allow...