Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...helping her stabilize her former "krone." In place of the practically worthless mark Germany has similarly adopted the "retenmark," nominally worth one gold mark, or 23.80. The Russians, deeming their former roubles hopeless, have issued the "chervonetz" equal to ten gold roubles, or $5.15. And now Hungary has followed suit by replacing its old "krone" with a new currency called the "sparkrone...
...great man, and to further himself intellectually commits to memory many phrases of an unpublished work by Dr. Gustavus Sonntag, the finance of Mr. Huber's daughter, Tanya. Finally opportunity knocks at his door. As a result he appears at the fashionable Stanlaw reception after confiscating a dress suit from the tailor shop...
...Esme, who has been nearly 40 years in the Diplomatic Corps, is tall, good-looking, gray-haired, gray-moustached, 60 years of age. On his arrival he was dressed in a dark gray fedora hat, a dark overcoat, blue suit, gray spats. His courtly manner had won him much popularity on the transatlantic voyage...
...Buenos Aires, a lamp which, by withdrawing energy from the air and bombarding a substance composed of sea salt, tin, copper, asphalt and paraffin, burned continuously for seven months, needed no recharging, and would have burned on till the substance disintegrated, had the laboratory not been destroyed by lightning. Suit was brought against him in the New York State Supreme Court. Many of his statements were proved false or were at variance with known scientific laws. Two disinterested illuminating engineers, Cyprian O. Maillaux and Clayton H. Sharp, after investigating the plant at Harrison, N. J., reported: "Nothing was shown which...
Graduate Treasurer, F. W. Moore '93, in giving his opinion to a CRIMSON reporter last night, stated that he was somewhat skeptical over the advisability of the plan, and that at present the University authorities have no intention of following suit. He considers it practical only if a player is suffering from cuts of bruises on the head, and does not expect the Tigers to find the plan feasible after a through test...