Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Aaa to Aa, Milwaukee from Aaa to A, Detroit has lately climbed to Baa but it used to rate Aaa. Best municipal bonds are those in Massachusetts, where the State has power to reorganize the finances of weak municipalities and no city rates less than A. Among the worst are those of Florida, where Fort Myers and St. Augustine both rate Caa (poor) and the town of Frostproof rates Ca (one notch above worthless). Last week 500 delegates to the annual Conference of the Municipal Finance Officers' Association sat down in St. Paul's Hotel Lowry...
...allowed temporary refuge in the country would be forcibly driven back into Germany at the first opportunity. Working in the dead of night, Czechoslovak police took 15 such refugees to a remote spot on the German border, and drove them over undetected by German frontier guards. Prepared for the worst, the Bureau last week tentatively added 60,000 Italian Jews to its list of potential refugees...
...cure what might be termed sporadic evils, undue restraints are being placed upon normal, proper action, thus creating abnormal market conditions. . . ." Same week that this tempered but widely publicized kick issued from the Exchange, stock prices, having climbed back to 190, again turned down in the beginning of the worst crash since 1929. As the toboggan gathered momentum, President Gay began to seem a seer and SEC was on the spot. SEC chairman then was amiable James McCauley Landis, who was so busy retiring to become dean of Harvard Law School that he scarcely bothered to reply to Broker...
Patrick altogether-as when he recalls the remark of a Dublin professor ("And the worst of it is that trumpery diseases which we never knew we had lift their heads and obtrude themselves the moment you go on the water-wagon"); when he praises the Irish language ("Ireland is either a Land of Song or a Land of Slugs with a trend to become a Land of Shylocks. Let Song save it . . .") ; when, making his devout way up St. Patrick's mountain, he forgets St. Patrick to muse on the beauty of the human foot (of the barefoot girl...
Only by remembering that Bulgaria was "the worst beaten nation in the World War," has since been shackled by the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Neuilly, could neutrals realize the pride and joy with which every Bulgarian read the showered leaflets...