Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are all points of factual detail, but the treatment given them in your article is not such as will inspire confidence that the second question called for an essay on the July Monarchy, but it is clear to me from his further remarks, that he understood this to mean that he was to write the history of the July Monarchy in twenty minutes. His estimate of my judgment seems to be desperately low, but let that pass. My real purpose was to find out what the members of the course would say about the July. Monarchy if they...
...York, quick figures announced that a raise of $5 a ton in the price of newsprint* would cost U. S. publishers $19,000,000 yearly. Since this cost must be passed on to the advertiser, it will mean an increase of .45% in all advertising rates...
Kick Out, Kick In. Louder than words the Soviet raids said: "We mean business. China must yield to our demands respecting the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Under the treaty of 1924 we have the right to keep Russian officials on that line. You kicked them off last July. We have demanded ever since that they be reinstated. Our rights date back to Tsarist times, when Russian money built the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria. We are ready to strike again. We have proved that you cannot resist us, even...
Seats. Predictions of a "quiet" market for 1930 may mean a safer market but will also mean lower commission earnings by members of exchanges. Foreshadow of this decline in earnings was the sale last week of a New York Stock Exchange seat for $350,000, $144,000 under the price paid for the last seat sold. A New York Curb Exchange seat sold last week was $100,000 under the previous price, bringing to its seller but $150,000. On the basis of these new prices the 1,375 Stock Exchange seats have a valuation of $481,250,000, while...
President Lowell, it is true, in his discussion of the House Plan, mentions the fact that it is intended to have undergraduates spend their last three years at Harvard in the new House Units. Is this to mean that the tradition of rooming in the Yard during one's Senior year is to be abandoned? If such is the case, it is a great pity. The Yard, with its ivy covered buildings, is the heart and soul of the University, and its atmosphere and traditions cannot be adequately replaced by any number of House Units, no matter...