Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quick to criticize this move were English businessmen, struggling to maintain the slow revival of British industry, for a higher rate means higher credit charges. On the other hand London bankers, nervous over the long and steady drain of gold from England, saw in the bank's announcement the only possible way of bolstering the gold reserve, down ?20,000,000 this year and now ?17,000,000 below the irreducible minimum of ?150,000,000, set by the Cunliffe Currency Commission...
Carefully Banker Hazelwood saw to it that the controversy over banking methods could not escape the convention, arranged speeches that represented all possible views from the old-fashioned single, branchless unit to national group banking. At the convention Mr. Hazelwood, although known to be an enthusiast for branch banking, declined to discuss its merits and demerits, spoke on his favorite topic of bank management...
...Halfback Owl, also Bluemenstock and Simonson heard their names cheered by Springfield students who, not daring to expect much, saw them plough through Brown to win by the width of a Brown kick that went crooked. Springfield 7, Brown...
...great lady of Czechoslovakia." Having left his dog on the sidelines, he began the finals last week in his customary way of drawing Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points by passing him. For two sets Richards, pale and imperturbable, saw the ball go by again and again to fall on baselines where he could not reach it and he saw his own apparently ungettable shots come back to him as steadily as though he were playing them off a wall. In the next two sets Richards did what...
...Peoria, Ill., a drugstore advertised dollar bills on sale at 89c each. Four hours elapsed, many saw, passed by. A Scotch barber, on his way to church, entered, bought...