Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...belated rate-advance of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco left only the New York Bank with a 3½% rate. Last week all the eleven other Banks maintained their rates at 4%. The delay in advancing the New York rate has doubtless been due to the effect which such a step might have in disturbing sterling exchange rates and perhaps increasing British gold shipments...
...arise by some orderly method. We must do what we can, albeit our powers may be limited, to build a law and legal institutions to which nations may appeal instead of allowing their differences to fester, to smart and to drag them apart. We must do this, at any rate, if we want our international society to be orderly and peaceful...
...year 1915. Without making an accurate comparison between the sport pages of that year and those of 1925, one outstanding fact appeared. And that is that in 1915, the "Big Three" received practically all the publicity, whores now it is spread over ten or a dozen colleges. At this rate, I should think the CRIMSON, would welcome any increase in popularity of the sport, for with that increase comes a decrease in the news columns of Harvard notes...
...York Bank is apparently loath to raise its rate lest it cause a similar rise of the Bank of England rate from 4% to 4½%, to prevent export of British gold to the U.S. Also the Reserve system apparently feels that too much money is now being used in Wall Street, and that as a matter of policy financial speculation can be restrained by holding the New York Bank rate lower than rates of the other Banks, and thus forcing funds from New York to other U.S. centres...
...unusual initiative, or ample means, or who happen to be under the care of exceptionally alert physicians, or within the jurisdiction of exceptionally competent health officers, receive the benefits of the new discoveries, but the great mass of the human race goes on as before, and the death rate from the diseases is reduced slowly and over long periods of time...