Word: kind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally the Bank is to have nearly all the powers of a clearing house for funds and credits of every kind,* but scarcely any of those exercised in general business financing by an ordinary bank or bank-of-issue.? Jealously decreed these prohibitions. They were forced upon the Baden-Baden bankers by the European banks of issue?especially the Bank of England? which feared the competition of anything like a "World Bank." The new Cash Register thus does not measure up to the original grand conception of Owen D. Young and the drafters of the Young Plan (TIME...
...university. . . . What is clear is that we must proceed to give opportunities for cooperation to those who have felt the need of them. We must regard the University as a whole. . . . Comparisons of salaries among universities are irrelevant and harmful. For the question is: can we now get the kind of men we want to go into education? It will never be settled until professorial salaries are such as to make scholarship respected in the United States...
...Russians may not be essentially a jolly race, but somewhere about their bearded persons lurks a kind of laughing madness. If you thought them gloomy, morbid, humorless, you should have read Chekhov or Gogol's Dead Souls. Rather than go to the library for an old book, read Kataev's The Embezzlers...
...loose, but that they complained of its being too loose. For I think that it may safely be said that as a rule the English student places relatively little store by efficient management and well developed organization in his sports. In rugby, for example, matches of one kind or another start almost with the season, and from then on the participants are far more concerned with playing the game than with learning how to play...
...compare very favorably even with him. Also to point out that all Harvard needed to win the Michigan game was three points, and that Yale last Saturday against Princeton made several long marches including one of 96 yards which ended on the one yard line. It requires a peculiar kind of courage to attempt a dropkick on 3rd down when a touchdown seems so near, and a team which has felt its power in a long march is not likely to try one. However, it is highly probable that the game Saturday will be decided by the margin...