Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Purdue the opinion expressed through the editorial column of the "Exponent", the University daily, is that such an action represents a complete misunderstanding of the raison d'etre which motivates collegiate athletics. One graduate writes, "Is the greatest university in the world becoming so dependent upon the great god money that it will deprive approximately one half of its athletically inclined students of enjoying the thrills of such (minor) competitions?" In spite of what is perhaps an understandable bias regarding the importance of his Alma Mater, this graduate's views on the importance of minor sports indicate a healthy respect...
...save the telephone companies money and to serve better those communities which have both the new dial and the old manual telephone service, Bell Telephone Laboratories invented a device which saves time and reduces errors on calls from dial to manual instruments. Last week the device was demonstrated in Manhattan...
...blonde girl had sold to housewives some "lily bulbs" which proved, after a week in water, to be stones. Peculiarities of the report were its complete omission of names and its precious form. It was written in something approximating rhymed couplets. The first stanza-paragraph rhymed "sundry" with "money." The third did better, rhyming "money" with "sunny." The fifth and final stanza, typical of the rest, read as follows...
...Baden had to rackon with the jealousy of the Powers which forbade locating the new Bank in any center where it might be suspected of coming immediately under the thumb of one or another central bank. They had to secure some centrally located spot which could focus the European money markets, and one able to recommend itself by its banking facilities. Above all they must have been moved by the strenuous fight made by the Agent General for Reparations to remove from German soil all vestiges of financial "control" and to enable the German nation to regard the reparations burden...
...first choice of each Power was its own money center, the second was probably Switzerland. And to have put that hurdle behind them was a wise act of the bankers, for their proposals contain more than enough controversial materials and cause for dissension as they go into "the second reading" of the Young Plan at the Hague...