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Word: marked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week. At length it touched 29.82 francs to the dollar. This decline was considered particularly disheartening, since it proceeded from no immediate or striking cause. Statisticians opined that the franc is probably still some distance above the critical point of irretrievable decline. They recalled that the pre-War mark* took two years to fall from 48 to the dollar to 184, one year more to slump to 7,350, six more months to crash to 154,000, and a final five months to become invisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Disheartening Decline | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

Entries for the meet do not close until May 20, so that it is impossible to tell yet just what stars will be competing for the crowns this year, Several of last year's champions are still in college and are expected to toe the mark again when the opening gun if fired in the door season behind them and several record breaking performances already this spring the athletes who will probably enter are expected to make the fiftieth annual meet one of the most notable in the annuals of the association. Stadium on May 28. With a brilliant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUCCESS OF FIFTIETH INTERCOLLEGIATE CONTEST ASSURED BY 38 ACCEPTANCES | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...arose and presented to Lady Byng, on behalf of the Canadian Corps, a portrait of Baron Byng by the Canadian artist, Major Forberry. Turning to his old commander, whom he succeeded in 1917, General Currie continued: "And will you, sir, in memory of other days, and as a small mark of our deep affection, please accept a motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Vimy Dinner | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...time a desire to introduce order. A vague suspicion is born that perhaps after all a clearer perspective will make possible a deduction of true values that remain untouched by the whirling flux of events. The child has become a philosopher. And it may be said that the hall mark of civilization has always been its ability to contribute to the ever widening stream of philosophical thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN RECEIVE FINAL TIPS FROM UPPER CLASSMEN ON THE VARIOUS FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION OFFERED BY THE FACULTY | 4/15/1926 | See Source »

...Times: The Turn of the Century, 1900-1904 ? Mark Sullivan ($5). Yesterday completely reconstructed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION,NON-FICTION: Sam Smith | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

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