Word: periodically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Just at this period production increased and silver accordingly fell still lower...
This year the autumn term was about 12 weeks long, the winter term will be about 15 weeks and the spring term less than 8, including the examination period. Such a division of the year's work seems extraordinarily unequal; and, if nothing else, manifestly unfair to those students who, having friends or relatives in other colleges or schools which as usual have the Easter recess at the beginning of April, naturally expected to be able to see them during the vacation...
...little calculation to determine that the vacation he proposes would not change this inequality materially. If the vacation ended on April nineteenth, the autumn term would contain about twelve weeks, the winter term over fourteen weeks and the spring term about eight weeks. The vacation last year divided the period from the Christmas vacation until the summer with rather more equality than the present recess does, but on the other hand the recess now divides the second half year exactly...
...France found her silver imports, under the bimetallic system, amounting, since 1822, to 2,680 million francs. Gold, on the other hand, had moved but slightly during this period, and was kept by law at the ratio of 15.5 times its weight in silver. The supply of gold was nevertheless continually wasting away (1) by wear and tear, (2) by the use of gold in manufacture, and (3) on account of hoarding...
...result of this steady change in the proportion of the metals in circulation, it was even said, with partial truth, that there was no gold in circulation in France. However, France did succeed in preserving her bimetallic system in full virtue, until the period of gold production...