Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petroleum regulations just promulgated by President Calles . . . would appear to bring to a practical conclusion the discussions which began ten years ago with reference to the effect of the Mexican Constitution and laws upon foreign oil companies. The Department feels, as does Ambassador Morrow, that such questions, if any, as may hereafter arise can be settled through . . . the Mexican administrative departments and the Mexican courts...
...company was formed with the liveliest and most aggressive young men of New York's financial district on its board of directors. Mr. Davison's banking sagacity and charm had brought them together. He acted as their chairman; Edmund C. Converse of the Liberty National Bank, where ten years before Davison had himself got his first important Manhattan banking job, went to the Bankers Trust as president. Thomas W. Lament was secretary & treasurer...
...Clearing House statements was prompted by a desire to conceal the banks' lack of sufficient reserves and hence to give a false sense of security to the speculative element of the financial community. Indeed a deficit in reserves had been shown in all but two of the first ten weeks of 1928, an altogether unprecedented situation...
...general attitude of the students here towards studies is perhaps a little difficult to understand. At first one would think Harvard students are a pretty lazy bunch. Eight o'clock classes practically don't exist. A nine o'clock is an atrocity, a ten o'clock only tolerable, while the most popular hours are eleven and twelve o'clock lectures...
...tutorial system, spreading in ever-widening circles of inclusion, takes in today the last but one, of the sciences taught in Harvard College. If the force of conversions to the tutorial system may be said to be cumulative, this event yields place to two others; some ten years ago when the Department of History, Government and Economics presented the system to Harvard College, and that indefinite but somehow expectable day when the tutorial system and Harvard College may be linked without qualification or exception...