Word: prices
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have never had cause to doubt it. At the same time, the obligations implicit in this mandate have steadily advanced the American press in accuracy and responsibility. Often, to be sure, it has damaged the country's reputation abroad, but censorship has always been too high a price to pay for reputation...
...been made residuary legatee of his estate, was a man of original ideas. When I first met him, some 20 years ago, he tried to sell me a group of undeveloped mining claims he owned. They did not impress me favorably, but to humor him I asked the price. He scratched his head and pondered. "Well," he said finally, "I've held those claims for 20 years and I figure my time ought to be worth $2.000 a year; so that would make the claims worth...
...York and through Allen & Unwin, Ltd. in London eight volumes of reproductions, over which many a U. S. publisher is cursing enviously under his breath. Until they appeared, nothing of their quality could be bought in U. S. bookstores for under $5. The Phaidon's top price was $3, for an edition of Botticelli containing 101 plates, 14 in color, and an introduction by the eminent Critic Lionello Venturi. Lowest price was $1.50, for The Disasters of War, Goya's series of 85 etchings with a foreword by the late Elie Faure. Others were big books of reproductions...
Hubert H. Nexon, of Brookline; Robert DeM. Price, of Willoughby, Ohio; Marx Leva, of Selma, Alabama; Louis Henkin, of New York; Arthur L. Adamson 2d., of Garden City, New York; Bennett Frankel, of Great Neck, Long Island; Charles S. Geier, of Boston; Herbert H. Gorson, of Atlantic City, New Jersey...
...like that one, sir?" he warbled, coyly snatching off the price...