Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding feature of the race was the lead which Lowell House maintained up to the 1 1-2 mile mark, and which it lost only after a crab was caught by the number two man in the last 100 yards of the heat...
...Climax of the House crew season will take place this afternoon. Crews representing Dunstor, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, and Winthrop are scheduled to leave the mark at the Technology boathouse at 5.30 o'clock sharp...
...currency. He gave the proposition short shrift. Said he: "This issue of fiat money would undermine the credit of the country . . . and shake the soundness of the United States Government itself. It's an invitation to start on the primrose path Germany followed until her mark went down. . . . Look out when you tamper with the soundness of your currency. These Bonus bonds you hear about are just greenbacks. . . . Inflation of a currency once started in a country seldom stops short of its complete economic ruin." When a Congressman asked him to study other Bonus-paying proposals, Mr. Dawes shot...
...against "the'illustrious banking houses that offered these debentures for public subscription as 'secured' debentures," last week a new committee was formed to delve into the Kreuger & Toll-International Match fiasco. Heading the committee was Bainbridge Colby, onetime (1920-21) Secretary of State, onetime lawyer for Mark Twain. Co-counsel was sharp-tongued Samuel Untermyer. Lee Higginson & Co., Kreuger's U. S. bankers, have formed protective committees, asked for stock deposits...
...glamor and majesty of the state which could make such a boast was not lost on a Europe which had already awakened to the vision of empire, and the ascendant star of the city "where the merchants are the kings, where St. Mark's is, where the doges used to wed the sea with rings," was seen and worshipped west as well as east. A young Londoner, knowing no more of Venice than its rumored fame, caught some of the majesty, and more of the glamor, in a play called "The Merchant of Venice." Today Venetians themselves turn...