Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practising is gratifying, considering the rival attractions of intramural sports. The work is carried on under the direction of Walter Nelson '31, instructor in gymnasium work, and the meet is expected to lay bare talent which has been developing rapidly in the last few weeks. The five events are: parallel bars, horizontal bar, side horse, flying rings and tumbling, and each entrant will perform two optional routines is the event in which he is entered...
...rates on loans, bonds and mortgages, public and private, up to 8 per cent, are cut to 6 per cent; and those above 8 per cent are cut by a quarter to one half. The Lombard rate (interest on security loans) is reduced from 10 to 9 per cent. Parallel with these reductions, the Reichsbank is to lower its discount rate from 8 to 7 per cent. Landowners are protected against forced auction sales by the provision that no bid under 70 per cent of the property's valuation need be accepted. Some taxes are reduced but the turnover...
...death was the first cause of the accident." The "lone criminal" was a cobbler named Vyesyolov. Drunk, he staggered in front of a train. While the crew of that train was trying to extricate his body a second train ploughed into it. Peasants laid the wounded on a parallel track, a freight train ran over them. Those who were able to appreciate the grim humor of the situation recalled that the cobbler's name was similar to the Russian word meaning gay (Vyesioliy) that when Russians say "drunk as a cobbler" they mean very drunk...
...kept swinging in every direction. Out of Governor Meyer's economic experience and wisdom came the figure?$2,000,000,000?of what was needed to make R. F. C. a real treat to the intangibles of this Depression. His ideas and those of Mr. Baruch run along parallel lines. These two and President Dawes are expected to be the three strong and active men on R. F. C.'s directorate...
...close of the Russo-Japanese war, the coral-and-sapphire-buttoned mandarins of Her Celestial Majesty the Empress Dowager signed a treaty guaranteeing the security of Japanese subjects in Manchuria, promising not to construct any Chinese railroads parallel to the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway or prejudicial to its interest. At China's request, the terms of the treaty were kept secret. The world has long known of its existence. Violation of it was Japan's excuse to the world for the invasion of Manchuria. Last week it was published...