Word: known
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Results. The first publication of the scientists' observations will not be known for some days. It will doubtless be years before conclusions are drawn. Only two months ago were published final conclusions on observations of the eclipse in California...
Died. Kate Macready Dickens Perugini, 89, last surviving daughter of Charles Dickens, known in her own right for her paintings of children; in London. She was married twice, first to Charles Alston Collins, brother of Novelist William Wilkie Collins; second to Painter Carlo Perugini of Italy. Aged 10, Kate Dickens taught her father a polka to dance with her at the birthday party of her brother Charles Dickens Jr. Author Dickens, many years after, specially insisted that the polka lessons ("my fondest memories") be included in his biography by John Forster...
...Board, through its "fear propaganda, warnings, and vague threats," has so filled the capitalists with anxiety, with terror, concerning investments in either stocks or bonds, that this capitalist has put his money not into stocks, not into bonds, but into the call money market- "the safest form of investment known in this country." Furthermore, the more the Reserve Board scolds and harries the Stock Market, the higher the interest rates on call money go and the more attractive becomes the call money market as a destination for surplus funds. Thus the Reserve Board has, against its own intentions, continually forced...
...well are Homer Guck's name and potency known. When Mr. Hearst's general manager. Col. William Franklin Knox, was running the Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.) News, some 17 years ago, Homer Guck was running two smalltown newspapers nearby, the Houghton Mining Gazette, the Calumet News. The young editors were friends, newstraders. When their ways parted, Col. Knox went to Mr. Hearst's chainpapers, Publisher Guck to Detroit to learn insurance (Detroit Life) and banking (Union Trust Co.), to make a reputation,as a city-booster...
...should have known...