Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international exchange the German mark rose approximately to par* last week for the first time since last May. During the July crisis, when President Hans Luther of the Reichsbank flew like a distracted June bug from Berlin to London to Paris to Basle seeking funds (TIME, July 20), the mark knelt at a low for the year...
Significance- Laymen who could not understand why the German mark should almost touch par last week while the German Government claimed to be weltering in an "unprecedented crisis," were enlightened by their bankers. They also learned why Germany, having outstripped all competition in exports, remains hard-pressed, unable to meet her obligations...
...result of an endowment by Senator Stanford. Some have maintained (and with some truth) that the endowment was made possible because of certain construction company profits made in the early days of the Central Pacific, when the Senator was associated with the C. Crocker Company, Collis P. Huntington, and Mark Hopkins the four evil geniuses of the undertaking...
Even off campus social activities center at the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco--such are the scruples and the loyalty of the sons of the Stanford...
...fifth century Athens, nevertheless, the reader is sure to carry away a fairly substantial picture of the life at Rome in the height of its greatness. Inevitably other great characters of history figure to a more or less extent in this account; men such as Caesar, Crassus, Octavius, Mark Antony, Brutus, Cassius are all seen in their relation to Cicero and his times. Of course Cicero's life is the central theme of the book, and is shown throughout its development...