Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There's a sort of fascination Attends this job of ours...
Restoration of the British pound to par required titanic sacrifices and was a sort of financial hole in one. France has no more than aimed at the British score, content with mere de facto stabilization of the franc (TIME, Jan. 3, 1927). Therefore Signer Mussolini did well, last week, when he pocketed proud hopes of setting the lira up beside the pound. Italy, a young kingdom with cheap labor for its chief resource, cannot match an accomplishment which is straining even the strong sinews of the British Empire...
...formula made the rounds of the ministers. Last week it appeared again-in William H. Leach's magazine on parish administration, Church Management. Editor Leach revived it in warning ministers against the "newspaper mind [which] knows all about the day's happenings in a jumbled, chaotic sort of way" and does not think. Nor should ministers permit themselves, Editor Leach admonished, to organize their sermons, as so many do, "in about the same way that newspapers are organized [with] a bit of politics, a bit of scandal, a bit of love, a bit of hate and a little...
...born in 1880. Her life shows equally the influence of iced oysters, champagne, and her uneasy but auspicious star. Having composed this detailed and candid history, she planned to follow it with a volume about a trip to Russia?for which "I would hail a New World," was a sort of preface. This second volume she did not accomplish. When she had finished My Life, in the spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving in her hands like...
...present so-called "Dawes Plan" - which specifies the annual pay ments to be made by Germany without stating how long they are to continue - must soon be definitized by some sort of agreement as to the total sum which Germany is expected to pay. Wrote Mr. Gilbert: "As time goes on and practical experience accumulates, it becomes always clearer that neither the reparations problem nor the other problems depending thereon will be finally solved until Germany has been given a definite task to perform on her own responsibility, without foreign supervision and without the transfer problem." The modest Agent Gilbert...