Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three months ago, in March, the Government offered only 3¼% and was oversubscribed. Since 1924, the rate has been as low...
...paper franc Government securities and are bitterly opposed to admitting once and for all that the franc has declined to 4? from a pre-War value of 19.3?, or about 5 francs per $1. By these millions of voters the hope is nurtured that the franc, which sank as low as 2? in 1926, may rise further than its present value of 4?, perhaps to the dizzy height of 10?. To translate this hope into U. S. terms would be to say that a man who owned bonds worth $100,000 before the War now finds them worth...
...Freshman and Combination outfits also practiced in the afternoon rowing down over the two mile stretch again. The trip, however, was made in stretches, and Coach H. H. Haines had his oarsmen keep the stroke low except for a number of trial racing starts...
...fair weather conditions were encountered but the pull was kept down to a two mile distance because of yesterday's strenuous time tests. The boats negotiated the downward journey in half mile stretches but returned without a stop after turning at the two mile buoy. The stroke was kept low...
...Nebraska farmers this time come very near to typifying the attitude of the country as a whole towards the present political season. At Houston, where the Democrats convene soon after, interest reached apt a low pitch that Tex Rickard engaged "one-Eye' Connoly, champion gate-crasher in the world, to crash the gates at the convention and supply and element of competition that would otherwise be lacking. With the choice of each party fairly certain and there being an even stronger certainly that the one real issue, prohibition, will never find expression in the platforms, most of the nation...