Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the American negotiators jumped at a much higher rate and coldly asked for a 5% interest. A lively discussion followed. Finally some one on the American side proposed...
...their inmost minds the Americans expected the British to oppose a desperate resistance and stick to their 21/2% proposal. To their renewed astonishment, the British did not. They rather quickly assented to 3 1/2%. And that is how today the rate of 2 1/2% has become a sort of sacred rate to be" imposed on all foreign debtors...
...prosperity in general business continue, with a tendency to watch the money markets for signs of overexpansion or overenthusiasm. As yet, however, the money market gives little or no sign of such developments or the anticipation of them. Nervous stock traders bandy rumors of a rise in the Reserve rate, but nothing happens...
...rate he was charged with being drunk and disorderly and bailed out for $50 while his friends telegraphed to newspapers in Portland that the proceeding was an outrage...
...this rate of progress and elevation New Haven will soon be able to boast the projected bronze bull dog (to be joined by a leash to "hanc statuam"), a new set of blue lions for the oval and perhaps a correspondence school of cinema photography. Columbia has one! We can even foresee the time when the only relics of yesteryear that Yale can boast will be Professor Beers and compulsory chapel. May the author of "The Ways of Yale", however, long outlive the less noble institution...