Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyones' amazement, was distinctly seen at Wimbledon to extract a pair of heavy tortoise-shelled spectacles from a large case and don them. With the King and Queen both converted to the use of "American glasses" they are now bound to become widely worn and provide yet another mark of Anglo-Saxon unity...
What He Leaves Behind. He leaves behind a question mark. What is to become of the group he led? Can Borah gather them together or would he try to? Probably not. Can Norris do it ? Hardly. Can Wheeler do it ? No. His was only a temporary alliance with LaFollette. Brookhart? Frazier ? Norbeck? Howell ? McMaster? The big question, time alone can answer...
...difficulties of the Stinnes concerns relate to the new turn in German currency matters. While the mark was shooting downward toward practical worthlessness, Hugo Stinnes bought everything in sight of a tangible character, and went deeply into debt also. Later, he paid off many of his debts at bargain prices-hence his enormous profits. Meanwhile, he had as little working capital as possible, and the minimum resources in actual money...
With the stabilization of the mark on a gold basis, this fairyland of finance soon faded. The Stinnes heirs found themselves saddled with colossal industries, heavy debts-and no money. As a result, they have been forced to resort to the banks to keep going, and now on the bank's own terms for accommodation. The result is that the colossal concentration of industries once held in Hugo Stinnes' hands is now pasing to the large Berlin banks...
...Harvard waiters won. They sized themselves up and put in their shell eight men with no nonsense about them. The Yale chef at Gales Ferry, on the other hand, casually lined his scullery men on a mark and gave oars to the first eight men who reached the shell. Such slipshod methods were their own reward. The Harvard waiters...