Word: much
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury Department announced its quarterly financing for March 15. It offered 475 millions worth of Treasury certificates to run for nine months at an interest rate of 4¾%. To Mr. Mellon it must have seemed very much as if the people were exacting usurious interest from their Government. In the last five years he has sold Treasury certificates bearing as low .as 2¾%. True, last October he was also obliged to pay 4¾%, but in December, coincident with a break in the stock market he was able to market an issue at 4¼%, although there...
Recovering his startled wits, the Mayor of Trencsen drafted with much thought a letter to Bangkok. About a year ago, he explained, some Slovaks held a mass meeting and issued a "Declaration of Slovak Independence." The whole thing was quite harmless and academic, easily suppressed by the police. In fact the ringleader was just an old botanist of some slight renown, Professor Mihalusz. Scared pink as a geranium by the first police warning. Botanist Mihalusz fled Trencsen for parts unknown?some say Vienna. He must have written the letter which won Slovakia recognition?from Siam...
...consent of the United States." Is it the Senate's consent that is meant, or the President's or what? Reservation V is thus not only arrogant but obscure, and therefore the League and Court States refused (1926) to accept the adherence of the U.S. on such terms ?much as they want to welcome the U.S. into the World Court, which is the judicial antechamber of the political League of Nations...
...sanguinary progress of Mexicans, last week, is Xochiquetzal (see map), ancient goddess of both licit and illicit love, the patroness of mothers, and especially the tutelary deity of women who accompany and gratify soldiers marching to battle. So little has Mexico changed through all the ages, that last week much of the rough camp work and cooking for both rebels and federals was done by such patriotic women...
...Eleven years old, a gelding, he was bred in Kentucky but not to race for steeples. He began as only a fair sprinter and passed through several hands before being bought by Mr. Bruce. He had such an unpleasant temper that starters almost barred him. This, perhaps as much as anything, led Mr. Bruce to try him at jumping. He was a success from the start and won the Maryland Grand National twice, the Meadow Brook Cup. the Maryland Hunt Cup and the Manor Cup. When he was first taken to England, Albert Ober rode him but, after three defeats...