Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight figures in black at the bottom of a column of current running expenses. The real story was on the other side of the ledger. To nine fat figures in red labeled "Emergency Funds," a tenth was last week added as the 1934 deficit climbed over the billion mark for the first time this fiscal year...
Germany's experience with currency inflation did not begin when the paper mark started to decline rapidly. It began when her government borrowed excessively for public works and the investors saw clearly that not enough taxes could ever be collected to pay back the debts incurred. The only answer then was repudiation--which is only another word for printing press inflation...
...Kelly fought into the lead, held the defending champion off until the 25th inning, finally took the game with a run of 13. (125-10-85.) It was the first game Greenleaf had lost in three years of championship play. All but two other opponents found him an easy mark. To pool enthusiasts the spectacle was pitiful, particularly the after noon when Greenleaf, always the well-mannered sportsman, appeared for his match with Jimmy Caras in no condition to play. Apparently drunk, he loudly protested that Caras had shoved rather than shot the cue ball in making one point...
...claims to be. Last month he shattered the English record of 246 winners in a season. He was still a long way from the world's record of 388 winners, ridden in 1906 by U. S. Jockey Walter Miller. But then no one. had broken the 300 mark since Vincent Powers 25 years...
...calls "the most famous American novel never yet published." But Rascoe has been too busy nosing around among other people's works to finish his own. Prometheans, like his Titans of Literature published last year, is an enthusiastic notebook proclaiming the virtues of some of his favorites. St. Mark serves gusty Author Rascoe as a peg on which to hang his theory, already secondhand, that the real Jesus was a political zealot named Simon Bar Gi'ora, that the four Gospels were really an allegory of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Rome. Not Petronius Arbiter but his more...