Word: redeemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factors made prudent and possible the act of M. le President: 1) The Bank of France now holds sufficient gold or foreign securities to redeem every centime of the national paper currency, apt to be presented, at its present value of 25 francs to the dollar; 2) So great is the reviving confidence of French peasants in securities payable in francs that they are now buying and stuffing them into stockings at such a rate that urban French capitalists are left with a legitimate surplus of capital for investment abroad. A further prop to French financial stability...
...right for U. S. people, with "wealth to burn," to indulge in the "habit," but he "earnestly" hoped that "the honorable gentlemen whom I am now addressing" would see to it that the practice was limited; for, said he, goods so bought "neither earn their cost nor redeem themselves out of earnings," and sales so made are "a drug to trade...
When the three reels of "Athletics at Harvard during the year 1926-1927" were shown recently at the Union before a hall jammed with students, the consensus of comment was that the athletes had made a noble and not unsuccessful attempt to redeem the University's histrionic prestige. The entire cast had the verve and spontaneity which comes only without rehearsal. Individual bits of skilful characterization and subtle nuance were too numerous commendation. Certainly the achievement of the football squad, even under the handicap of mere practice, contrasts sharply with the inability of the Dramatic Club's finest to gain...
Doubtless, even with the desired pledges, the plan would not thereby become an assured success. Men might fail to redeem promises lightly made. On this account, the pledges should be signed with something like due deliberation. Moreover, the running of the hall without detrimental loss is still only a scheme on paper. The reasonable price at which it is proposed to offer viands is good fodder for skeptics who cannot be categorically contradicted. Yet, the University has studied this aspect of the problem as well as the others and is to a certain extent, plighting its faith with the student...
...Word of a Friend" builds up with tolerable success the form of Bill the college waster, but fails dismally in the denounement which is designated to dispose of him; and Francis Fawsett's "Fisherman's Luck", in spite of occasional bright phrases, shows neither wit enough to redeem the broad burlesque in the lay figures of Waterly Meadows and Sir Tenterhook Weathervane nor invention enough to cover the threadbare situation in which these persons take part...