Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instead of buying. France and Belgium in the last two years have sold 40,000,000 ounces of silver. Inevitably the Chinese market was flooded, the price of silver fell. Inevitable too was the bearish selling of Chinese speculators last week. But silver-men opined last week that in spite of its new low, silver faced no crisis. Optimists even prophesied that Chinese silver would again chink to better prices...
...attempt working their way for four years without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time she graduated, permanent injury to her heart. ... As a general rule women do not earn as high salaries as men. Moreover, they look forward to marrying and are reluctant to load a debt on a young husband...
...their forte. Congressmen before whose names the people have written "ex" instead of "X" become ambassadors to the Sublime Porte or Commissioners of This and That. Tammany Hall has no power to supply such opportunities for service to its late great, but its Spirit of Service operates in spite of obstacles. It was the motive force behind a business announcement of last week...
...stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah, but Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) has other good ones in the sermon in which, dressed as a locomotive engineer, he describes the cannonball express to hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite of the temptation of spirituals, it is under control. Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah one of the best films of the year. Best actress : brown-yellow Nina Mae McKinney. not yet 18, who became a Manhattan chorus girl at 12, was picked...
...result has been that in the last eight years Squibb's net profit has multiplied seven times in spite of expenditures of $14,000,000 for research. Sales last year were over $13,000,000, net profit $1,368,300. Squibb customers number some 700 physicians' supply houses and wholesalers, 700 boards of health, 1,300 medical clinics, 5,000 hospitals, 27,000 retail druggists...