Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report, "declared themselves in favor of a new chapel". Certainly this view will meet with less hostility than last year's report, which favored a purely abstract memorial such as a monument, belfry, or fountain; yet the committee's new suggestion will hardly appeal strongly to undergraduates, at any rate...
British estimates are that a quantity of liquor equal to about half of cne per cent of the amount consumed in the United States prior to prohibition will come here from the Bahamas in 1923 at the present rate of export. The Springfield Republican points an interesting parallel between rum smuggling and slave smuggling prior to the Civil War, which makes this figure seem rather insignificant. The importation of slaves to the United States was forbidden in 1808, but illicit trade continued over 50 years until the Civil War and the Declaration of Emancipation. England was against the slave trade...
...intimates will tell you that his aloof reserve and unapproachableness, which qualities are so valuable in handling high-strung singers, are rooted in shyness, that the. man is a bookworm, with the sensitive timidity of his kind. Gatti began his life as a civil engineer. He has a first-rate mind, with all the shrewd subtlety that one attributes to Italians. He distinctly has the grand manner. It is this, perhaps, that makes him reluctant to talk English. He would rather talk no English than broken English. But many people underrate his knowledge of the language. You will find that...
During the past week the current financial and business situation changed little. Production, particularly in steel, oil and automobiles, remained at high rates, but with a detestable tendency to decline. The stock market remained dull and heavy. Cotton and wheat were firmer. The slackening tendency observable in business generally is normal for this season of the year, but business leaders are inclined to think consumption has begun to overtake production, and that further increases in the rate of output would be for a speculative purpose alone. Wages are generally rising, however, and in general profits in industry and trade seem...
Benito Mussolini: " I was enjoying my usual sport of driving my red racer at a terrific rate when a police-man in Faenza arrested me, not knowing who I was. He took me before a magistrate and I was fined. Said I to the then trembling policeman: 'Always do your duty and fear nothing...