Word: units
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be given in the Lecture Hall of the Boston Public Library. The series will continue on each Tuesday thereafter. Provision has been made for those who wish to take the course as a college study, and to each person passing the course a credit value of one unit or one semester hour will be given...
...best reason for reviving the ecu is that it would stop our people from thinking in terms of francs and would abolish forever the present distressing comparison of salaries and prices with those of pre-War days. . . . The franc, even at par (19.3?) was a ridiculously small unit which never served any purpose except to complicate bills and infest columns with fractions. ... As for that mathematical microbe the centime ($.0004) it would have been discarded long ago if only someone had been able to reckon up the centuries wasted in counting such a monetary parasite...
This baby was David Schuyler. He grew up with his nephews and nieces who were older than himself. In a sense, he was like them, carrying on in his small person many of those clan qualities that made the Schuylers a tough and strenuous unit. But he had added to his mother's wiry energy and to his father's clumsy power a delicacy of mind that had never been developed in either of them. Early in his life he began to read books not for amusement, although they excited him beyond all games or merriments, but because...
...Last week popped up pertinently the case of one John Harvey Hargreaves, British subject. Eighteen months ago Mr. Hargreaves was jailed on an eight-year sentence for deserting from the French Foreign Legion. Last fortnight he was still in jail; but a U. S. deserter from the same French unit, one Bennett J. Doty, had been released from a similar eight-year sentence through pressure by the U. S. State Department (TIME, Dec. 19). The Eagle, it seemed, had squawked to some purpose. Last week the British Foreign Office followed this example. The French Government, having yielded Deserter Doty, could...
...Treasury Department announced its policy for Prohibition enforcement in 1928. Last year, some 24 millions were appropriated for the Prohibition unit's work in 1927. Next year's expenses were expected to be heavier. But since its reorganization as a branch of the civil service, the Bureau is more efficient. And, decided the Bureau, were moneys not spent as in the past on buying lecturers to preach, literature to parade and statistics to prove the triumphs of Prohibition, there would be plenty to spread around on straight enforcement. The Treasury Department therefore announced that it would cease...