Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trade paper, the Taxi Weekly. At almost any corner you may occasionally see drivers who are not "cruising, cruising," and have been lucky enough to find parking space, poring over the news of their profession. Last week, for example, idle* eyes lit up at the screamer headline "HIGHER CAB RATE PLANNED...
THIS year as well as last saw literary representations of nineteenth century decades at a rate almost epidemic. Don Marquis wrote of the adventurous business enterprises of the seventies. "The Mauve Decade" summed up, falsely, some aver, the social life of the nineties, and Mark Sullivan with the "Turn of the Century" said his say on the politics and public fashions of those days. The present book has a rather more restricted field than any of these, and yet is of them, for it treats of the days when New England was admittedly the cultural balance wheel of the nation...
...time he was state treasurer. As treasurer he deposited some millions of dollars of Illinois money in a bank controlled by one of his friends, the late State Senator E. C. Curtis. The bank paid Illinois 2% interest and lent the money to Chicago packing houses at 8% interest rate. Enemies of Mr. Small maintained that he, as well as the bank, profited on this transaction. In fact, Representative Miller in the oration previously quoted said that Governor Small "had his hands up to the shoulders in the state treasury...
...worth. In thirteen years it has become so integral a part of the University that one wonders whether or not its value is restrictive to a larger Harvard--whether it would not have greatly added to that smaller and more centralized institution whose era preceded it. At any rate it is impossible to conceive of Harvard without this most admirable aid to collegiate orientation. And now another link is added--McKinlock Hall, the formal dedication of which takes place today...
...dice-wielders roll their eyes and shake their heads at getting the "unlucky" two-spot; superstition everywhere has fastened forebodings upon it. Probably the prejudice against the two-dollar bill results from the ease with which it may be mistaken for and handed out as a one; at any rate, it is the least liked of all currency denominations...