Word: points
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British associates. That Japan can stabilize on so small a credit-Britain required $300,000,000 when she stabilized in 1925-is due partly to the fact that Tokyo is so far from other gold marts that a wide spread always gapes between parity of the yen and the point at which it would be profitable to ship out gold. Since Sept. 12, 1917 gold exports from Japan have been forbidden but the embargo will be lifted simultaneously with formal stabilization...
...Ledge. Four business partners hold a sombre "conference. One of them has stolen some of the firm's securities and the evidence points to the handsome, heretofore spotless Richard Legrange. Bearing in mind the ordeals by fire and water with which savage tribesmen test virtue, the businessmen devise an ordeal by dizziness for Legrange. He must walk from one window to another along a four-inch ledge on the outside of the building which, at that point, is 200 feet above ground. If he falls, his death will be announced as suicide; if he accomplishes the feat the whole...
From the 20th Century point of view the lute is antique, almost obsolete.* Its name is derived from the Arabic al'ud (the wood). It is akin to the biblical instrument called the psaltery...
...mauled; 500 homes, 100 fishing boats and 26 schooners smashed; 70 miles of coast stripped of wharves and fishing gear. At sea the quake shook ships. Nine of the 21 cables across the North Atlantic tore apart. Cable repair boats, always waiting for trouble, sped from ports to a point about 900 miles northeast of Manhattan. The breaks were found by exact instruments which measure the resistance of a continuous electrical conductor. Great grappling hooks groped for the cables on the sea floor. Healthy, temperate mechanics- spliced the broken wires to restore the intercourse of the hemispheres. Every half minute...
...definite plan for the use of the dormitories in the Yard been decided upon. It has been suggested, however, that those dormitories will be used by members of the Freshman class, prior to their entering into one of the Houses. It was pointed out in the CRIMSON during the discussion last year that such an arrangement would seem to be not only practicable in relation to the mechanics of the House Plan but would be most advantageous from the point of view of the Freshmen. If tradition, associations and atmosphere can have any hold upon the undergraduate, there should...