Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MARK J. HAMPTON Los Angeles, Calif...
...which have brought 91 were bringing 37 paper. Dawes bonds are worth more than Young bonds because they are backed by German customs and liquor revenues, tobacco, beer and sugar taxes. Meanwhile the Reichsbank, despite fresh batches of predictions from Berlin, Paris and London that the mark must now go off gold, maintained an attitude of stubborn insistence upon its so-called "gold standard" which has long been purely theoretical, since no one can get gold for marks. "We reject absolutely a devaluation policy!" barked Dr. Schacht. "Reports in the foreign Press regarding inflation or devaluation of the mark...
...grave like Schubert. Only at skat, his favorite recreation, will he risk a gamble. Strauss's 70th birthday brought forth countless praises. But the tall, ruddy-cheeked old composer remained as detached and matter-of-fact as when he said years ago: "If my compositions are good, or mark a new phase in musical progress, they will be honorably mentioned in histories of music-which nobody will read! But if they are of no value the most enthusiastic eulogists will not be able to keep them alive. The paper mills may grind them into pulp. ... I shall not shed...
...Princeton a year ago by Jack Lovelock of Oxford. To see it broken by nearly a full second would have been enough, by itself, to make last week's track meet perfect. But ten minutes before, breathless spectators had witnessed the unexpected fall of another world mark. Stanford's Ben Eastman, who set a world's half-mile record two years ago, ran his race agains Charles Hornbostel of Indiana, who hai equaled Eastman's time last year. East man was away first, 8 yd. ahead at the first turn of the last lap. Hornbostel...
Those in launches or on the train saw Cornell and Washington away first: watched California's scarecrow stroke Dick Burnley, make his first challenge at the mile; noticed the way Navy at the halfway mark held on behind California and Washington. At the railroad bridge, 1 mile from the finish, California began to challenge in earnest; Washington's stroke Ed Argersinger, sent his beat up and began to watch California whittle down his half length lead by inches...