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...francs by July 1. Another internal loan would be a risky business. To charm the francs from Jean Frenchman's famed sock to float the last one, the Government was forced to offer 4½ bonds at 98½ with the costly promise to redeem at 150. France therefore gets the money she needs from Britain, and at nearly half the interest rates she would have had to pay at home. Second reason for the loan is the belief of every Frenchman that whatever may or may not come of the Roosevelt-Herriot-MacDonald conversations in Washington...
...college sentiment, and of intimacy, and the opportunity to make close friendships, would certainly be a grievous one, were it a fact. There is, however, too, much of a tendency to regard these as lost merely because a college has grown larger. And there is the corresponding attempt to redeem the loss by reducing the College to small units where greater intimacy may effect closer friendships. While House Plans do help to restore "these infinitely precious things," still it must not be overlooked that the basis of close friendships consists not in people occupying the same hotel, but in their...
Without these added powers, all limited to actual reduction of expenditure the president elect will be in no fair position to redeem his campaign pledges to the country. This bill proposes a centralization of action and of responsibility, a step eminently valid, and it is certainly a tragic irony which decrees that Mr. McNary, its most avowed foreman in the Senate, should have met his baptism of fame beneath the aegis of the Farm Relief Bill of painful memory...
...production is cleverly presented and well executed, but even these virtues are not sufficient to redeem its faults of construction. Melodrama hath its merits; but a melange of Hamilton Banks and chiropractors never...
...recover their lead, but instead tell further behind. Jumping at the advantage thus opened, the Jayvee exhibited the fastest play of the evening scoring three times in rapid succession. The last chukker was characterized by desperate and ineffectual attacks by the first-year men, in an endeavor to redeem themselves. Experiences determined the outcome for on the whole there was definitely more potential talent in the Freshman ranks...