Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greta Garbo's cinemas and "the rubberneck busses" which go through San Francisco's Chinatown. She has little interest in clothes, hates social occasions and everything she calls "Kitsch" the German slang for junk, which Lehmann uses to describe everything which is artistically second-rate...
Freshmen who do not take their meals regularly at the Union may obtain slips and will be charged the usual rate for evening meals in the Houses (75 cents...
...coin or currency which at the time of payment is legal tender for public or private debts. More simply stated, it means: That under the former value of money, the $100,000,000,000 of outstanding gold clause contracts call for the debt to be paid at the old rate of 25.8 grains of gold to the dollar, whereas the new dollar contains only 15 5-21 grains of gold. All five creditors sue in common cause declaring that their contracts call for repayment "in gold coin of the present standard of weight and fineness." Each insists that Congress...
...hollow shell. David Hunter's Yankee raiders had passed that way in 1864, and its library had been gutted, its laboratory equipment smashed or looted. When Lee took charge at Washington, part of the campus was being used for farm land. Although not a first-rate "academic beggar," Lee administered what money he had to good effect. To the old-time classical curriculum, so beloved of the Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamars, Lee, who had spent four years defending the planters' leisure-class culture, soon added vulgar practical courses of agriculture, commerce and applied chemistry, thus anticipating Nicholas Murray...
...story of The Iron Mother is told by a wise peasant who has been Marlise's admirer and Aime's friend. His complete acceptance of the French way of doing things, of French values, may be what constitutes the "wholesomeness" of the book; at any rate, he never goes out of his way to lecture Marlise for her avarice. If it had not ruined Aime, he would have regarded it as normal...