Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous "Francqui devaluation" was in 1926. In that year the late King Albert was persuaded by Finance Minister Francqui that Belgium's currency, then sunk to about one-ninth of its pre-War value, should be officially "revalued" (i. e. devalued) and anchored for 25 years on gold. At the same time a new unit of currency, the belga, worth five Belgian francs, was adopted for dealings in foreign exchange, but in Belgium francs are still the currency...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western, U. S. railroads have habitually increased their fixed charges when they should have reduced them; they have sold bonds when more prudent corporations were selling stock; they have paid dividends when they should have been paying off debts; they have sunk millions in improvements that failed to up traffic or revenues; they have frittered away millions trading (for "strategic reasons") in stocks of other roads...
...rebels." Day after day, rain, snow and sleet froze the two armies in their tracks in the shadow of the mountains of Boz. Both sides fought best with rumors: that Venizelos had been wounded by an airplane bomb; that he had fled to Egypt; that the Averoff had been sunk; that the rest of the fleet had gone over to the rebels; that the Averoff had shot down two loyal planes; that a man named Anthony Fix was financing the revolution; that the rebels had advanced halfway to Athens; that they had bombarded the Parthenon. The Government was not "crushing...
...Bache found crumbled temple and dwelling walls, spindles, loom weights, hammer-stones, hones, knives and scrapers for leather-working and basketmaking, combs, ointment mortars, receptacles for the kohl with which the women darkened their eyelids. On this level also were tombs which had sunk through the silt from the Eighth Level: wooden coffins with their skeletons undisturbed, buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious...
...story has been different. The record is better--how much better will be in a large measure determined by the score tonight. League games have been won--the victory over Dartmouth is the best example; favorites have been upset--witness the surprise victory over Brown. Play has at times sunk to the grammar school level, but at times it has been remarkably high in quality. Sandwiched in between the defeats there have been redeeming performances which augur well for the future. The team has gained unity of purpose, and there are no longer players in competition with Fesler...