Word: sol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sol...
...Reserve Bank of Peru at Lima, Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer, Princeton's world-famed fiscal expert, has worked calmly through the last three major Peruvian revolutions, all successful (TIME, March 9, 16). Last week slight, grey-haired, bespectacled Dr. Kemmerer emerged with a finished report on the Peruvian sol, told Peru's latest Government that they had better stabilize it on a gold basis at its present value 28?. Within a few hours the Government issued the necessary decree...
Only two months and three governments ago, Peru tried to stabilize her sol at 40?. So impregnable is Dr. Kemmerer's prestige that he can ignore the popular roar of rage: "Kemmerer has sold...
...Vagabond is upon the horns of a dilemma. Logically speaking, he wants to sprawl upon some roof without many clothes, thereby absorbing the health-giving rays of Old Sol, or he wants to listen to a lecture every hour of the day. He cannot do both, hence .... And the only possible solutions he can think of would create philosophical or ethical fallacies. Political thought brings to mind arbitration Bask in the sun for an hour, then go to a lecture for an hour and so on. This presents no difficulties. Anywhere, probably the lecturers are suffering from the vacation...
...Lombardi, Qualvolutta trascorrere and Attila, Te sol quest anima by Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Basso Ezio Pinza (Victor, $2.50)- A famed Metropolitan line-up sings early, rarely-heard Verdi...