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Naturally realtors in "Nanking" or "Southern Capital" sported last week on the crest of a boom which had shot all desirable buildings up to approximately 15 times their former value, with land appraisals up tenfold...
...great longing in her. Bayliss meant external luxury, and she took him in form only. But the capitulation of sensitive women to such men as the Mad Carews is as inevitable as the failure of crops in Elders Hollow, the Bowers' poor farm land, be the men tenfold as wild and intangible as Bayliss is. In fact, it was when she thought Bayliss was consoling himself with a Bohemian girl that Elsa ran hysterically down the hill to him, and thus their marriage became a verity...
...Armageddon first disturbed the world. In Manhattan, Dr. Paul Hollos, Budapest banker, spoke at New York University, said that demands for U. S. capital would continue for a decade. He painted a rosy view of Hungary's financial reconstruction, concluded by saying that bank deposits had increased tenfold during the past year as a sign of domestic and foreign confidence in the country...
...ancient literature would fill a large place in such a course of instruction, because it brings before us the thoughts and actions of many great minds, minds of many various orders of greatness, and these related and exhibited in a manner tenfold more impressive, tenfold more calculated to call forth high aspirations that in any modern literature...
...passion and superstition must have a consummate skill if he is to avoid common banality or overwrought melodrama; and when, as is with the case with Jacinto Benavente in America, he is almost unknown to his audiences, and must assume the full burden of proff, his task increases tenfold. Yet Benavente is sufficiently a master of his art to have overcome these difficulties and presented a play of unquestionable merit...