Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second possible issue uncovered is the high tariff-an old issue but in a new guise. Congressman Cordell Hull, onetime Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, last week issued a statement, as a sort of trial balloon no doubt, linking the high tariff with failure to get 100 cents on a dollar in payment on War debts from Europe. His argument in substance: In settling the Italian Debt the U.S. was forced to agree to such cutting that the U.S. loses from $2,500,000,000 to $3,000,000,000† The reason the Italian Debt...
There will also be in rehearsal four large plays, which are to be kept ready for production at any time during the year. This sort of play will be on the order of those given by the Moscow Art Theatre...
Athletes may die twice: once when they put their gear away; once when breath leaves them. Two weeks ago sportsmen marked the passing in the first fashion of James Thorpe the Indian; last week death of the second, the definitive sort, came to Robert D. Wrenn, four times National Tennis Champion...
...Nathalia sort of sings her poems to herself-they come into being that way. She reads Kipling constantly, and Conan Doyle is her favorite. The only poet she likes is Longfellow, but she doesn't enthuse over him. She likes wild, imaginative tales...
...Boston Reserve Bank's rate advance was enough to topple the motor stocks over in a record day of 3,400,000 share sales. Because of this unprecedented volume, many ignorant people concluded that a panic had started. As a matter of fact, nothing of the sort developed. The smash in motors was simply a large-scale reaction in a strong "bull" market, as proved by subsequent events. In succeeding sessions of the stock exchange, prices steadied and in some cases shot upward to new high levels. The whole episode may be dismissed as signifying nothing in particular...