Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every applicant will be held responsible for the tickets allotted to him. Any Harvard man whose tickets are sold or offered for sale, at a premium, will be blacklisted...
There occurs to one, however, a quaintly instructive thought. The premium of "pussyfoot" insurance is 10 shillings, or half a pound, in every hundred. There may be nothing in figures, but we venture the suggestion that Great Britain is just one-half of one percent dry, and afraid of becoming more so. While we ah, sad to state!--are one one-half of one percent wet. But judging by the election returns, our thirst is as that of the herd of porkers who "rushed headlong into...
...order to put a premium on scoring by straight football, rather than by dropkicks or otherwise, it was advocated that the distance between the goal posts should be narrowed from 18 feet six inches to 14 feet. The 14 feet was not set as a definite width, but merely suggested as a tentative distance...
...country views with misgivings the continued decline in the foreign exchange rates. They know that the existing premium on the American dollar in most of the countries of Europe cannot be allowed to persist without a serious blow to American trade in that part of the world. I believe that the financial leaders of the country would welcome a concerted effort on the part of the government and of the bankers to restore the equality of exchange rates, even if that involved a further extension of credit to Europe...