Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once, Mark Hanna failed. Midlander though he was, he did not get his ship subsidy bill past the bombproof dugouts of Midland Congressmen...
...They remembered him as the onetime Upper Burgomaster of Essen who twice was summoned to appear before the French General of Occupation, who twice refused-and the General came to him. They saw him now as the hard-headed hero who first balanced the budget and stabilized the mark, and who had done it "not by genius but by character...
...This is criminal. . . . The Reichsbank is able to keep the mark stable and will...
...spoke of high taxation and insisted that, for some time to come, it would be necessary. He spoke of prices, which once 21,900 points above the 1914 mark, had subsided to 18,900. He spoke of steady price decreases, accelerated later by commercial treaties with neighboring countries. (Hungary recently concluded a commercial treaty with Poland.) He mentioned that, when he left Budapest, prices there were higher by 10% than in Vienna...
...spite of what Mark Twain said about statistics as a superlative form of lying, there are times when figures are very impressive--especially if one is left to draw his own conclusions. The Boston Transcript has given such figures of college attendance in this country. "Since the establishment of colleges in the United States," says the Transcript, "there have been graduated, in round numbers, 900,000 men--and at the present moment there are actually in the colleges of the country about 700,000. In other words, there are almost as many students now in the colleges of the land...