Word: scarcer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pierre Charron's 'De La-Sagesse.' It is also signed to the manuscript assignment to Jacob Tonson and John Watts of his rights as author of the 'Fables' and the 'Beggar's Opera,' dated February 6, 1727. The poet's signature is not easy to find, but infinitely scarcer is that of 'L. Bolton' the Duchess of Bolton who was once Lavinia Fenton, the creator of the part of Polly in the 'Begger's Opera,' and in no small measure responsible for its amazing first...
...valley of the Atchafalaya river, flowing through swamp districts of Louisiana, bands of outlaws looked forward to starvation or surrender. Houseboats guarded them from the flood, but food grew constantly scarcer. Rescue meant prison...
Stocks and bond prices are high, commodity prices are in general firm or else rising, business activity increases. If affairs follow precedent, the fall should see larger advances of credit for commercial purposes, increased output, a stronger general price level and higher interest rates. The latter, together with a scarcer supply of credit, will presumably turn the stockmarket...
...experiment which bids well to be of the latter, scarcer class, one destined to live and flourish in Harvard, is the newly reorganized Student Council, Reduced in size by one-half, its manner of election radically changed, it retains scarcely a vestige of resemblance to the Councils of forme3r years. There is hope it retains none of their sluggish in activity...
Good Programs Get Scarcer- Money the Root of the Evil...