Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total of the incomes on which taxes were paid was $26,336,337,843 (five billion greater than the previous year, three billion greater than the previous highwater mark...
...where he had gone to open a public golf course by driving the first ball. To caddies, the Duke said: "I'll give a gold sovereign (?1) to the caddy who retrieves the ball." Off scampered the caddies. Some stopped 75 yards away, others at the 100-yard mark, a few, out of compliment to the royal golfer, went a yard or two farther. "Smack," went the Duke's club. "Click. Clack," snapped a score of cameras. "Hooray," roared the crowd. The ball cleared the caddies by yards, bounced, came to a halt 210 yards from...
...small budgetary surplus. Amounts falling due from Germany under the operation of the Experts' Plan are this year to be used as budget receipts, but next year they will be kept in a separate account and use:l for paying reconstruction charges and French debts. This will mark the end of balancing budgets with expectations from Germany, which has been a common practice since...
...outstanding reunion was held by the Class of 1900, which includes among its members Walter Hampden, actor; U. S. Brigadier General Marlborough Churchill; Authors Walter Pritchard Eaton, W. C. Arensberg and Reginald Wright Kauffman; Publisher Ralph Pulitzer of The New York World; Newspaper Correspondents Frank H. Simonds and Mark Sullivan...
...there was a rich personal flavor, informal yet dignified, unhurried but never verbose. Each issue was a monolog by an unprejudiced ruminative man who was as likely to weave into his discourse some bright strand of slang as some fibrous or silken or homespun thread from Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Mark Rutherford, Andrew Marvell...