Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that it should not exclude the arts but join with them in reducing collegiate thought to a mean of common sense. Any sentimental traditions, no matter how venerable, that exclude from the college curriculum, all but scholastic abstractions untainted by the leprous touch of realism, should never stand in the way of such additions as this...
...safety-razor stand Empire Salesman Wales remarked with just a touch of ballyhoo: "I always use one of these myself. It is a jolly sight safer than the old-fashioned...
...Broadway, Manhattan, stands the home bank of Guaranty Trust Co., U. S. billion-dollar bank. At No. 31 Nassau St., Manhattan, stands the home bank of National Bank of Commerce, U. S. almost-billion-dollar bank. Should a ghost with the gift of flitting through walls flit through the rear wall of Guaranty Trust and continue flitting, it would flit through the rear wall of National Bank of Commerce. For these two great U. S. banks stand back to back. Between them they own almost the entire block bounded by Broadway and Nassau, Cedar, Liberty Streets...
...Guaranty Trust and National Bank of Commerce (TIME, Feb. 11). Probably a skyscraper will soon be erected on the joint site. With Guaranty Trust already fourth largest and National Bank of Commerce ninth largest among U. S. banks, the merger-bank will pass National City and Chase National, will stand as largest U. S. bank, as first U. S. bank with assets approximating two billions. From the standpoint of capital and surplus the merger-bank will be also world's largest. From the standpoint of deposits and total assets, London's Midland Bank Limited is larger ?almost...
...absences, or in Winchester, Va., where Byrds have long had their homes, Commander and Mrs. Byrd usually march side by side with their four children (Richard Evelyn Jr., Evelyn Bolling, Katherine Agnes, Helen) ranged behind them. In their home he has a ceremonious way of listening to her. He stands before her, heels together, tall slim body bent deferentially towards her. That was the way he used to stand when, as naval lieutenant and Harvard undergraduate, he courted her. It absorbs her into the Byrd tradition, reminds her of his bright ancestor. Henri of Navarre, Henri IV of France...