Word: referes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet Government issues, for example a certificate for 1,000,000 rubles, but labels it 100 rubles; and all official documents, including the weekly accounts of the national bank, are based upon the latter figure. Unfortunately the people still refer to the new bills as worth 1,000,000 rubles because they rate on a par with old bills of that denomination. But the authorities hope that when the old bills are called in, the populace will adopt the face value as the current rating. By this ingenious expedient the internal debt will be reduced ten thousand-fold...
...educated to appreciate good drama, and those who think that the drama must be changed to suit the public taste. The latter is the better conception of the matter. The public is setting high standards, and the drama must live up to them. When I speak of 'drama' I refer not only to the legitimate stage, but also to the motion pictures, which, although they are at present on a lower standard than the stage, will overcome this handicap, and reach the artistic worth which they are aiming at. The motion pictures today are in the condition in which...
...once made itself felt in the Inca University. At the outset let me explain that the last word, Quot, seems to be translatable somewhat like the Latin "volgus" or Greek "polloi" and may be rendered in English as "herd" or "clan". It was often used by the Incas to refer to cattle, though in this case it seems to imply some sort of men. The significance of the other two words is unknown...
...what nation, one wonders, does the title of this publication refer...
...today this motto is in grave danger. I refer to the attempt to remove Harold D. Wilson from the position of Prohibition Enforcement Officer merely because he has "shown up" a few prominent politicians while enforcing the law. And what is worse, the very ones who seem likely to wreck this worthy principle are the fellow partisans of its originator...