Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer their most serious productions. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven with the Eroica--all these composers have been represented not merely by selections, but by complete and capable performances of some of their greatest works. Whether appreciation of a long symphony ends with the coming of spring is uncertain; at any rate, these concerts have gone upon the opposite asumption, and the results have been distinctly gratifying. Evidently the public is not completely satisfied with the usual program of shreds and patches. The Pops are hardly ready to take rank as a continuation of the regular orchestral season, and after...
Rediscount Rate became 4½% in all Federal Reserve Bank districts except San Francisco and Kansas City...
Call Money Rate, for the first time since July, 1921, rose to 6½%. Banks one day withdrew ten million dollars from the money market; Memorial vacation day's impingement was another cause; and twenty million dollars to England in the week a third...
...enclosing my check for this year's subscription to the Harvard Fund, regretting exceedingly that it cannot be larger, but at any rate I want to be among the list of subscribers; and, insignificant though the amount is, I would like it credited to my class...
...read Lavisse and Rambaud's "Historie Generale" at the rate of 20 pages an hour. Doesn't know any German to speak of but insists that his French is adequate...