Word: 7s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York Stock Exchange traders grabbed for Polish, Serbian, Czech and Danish bonds as if the reconstruction had already begun. In London the trend was even more pronounced: for ?100-par Polish 4½s the price hit 28 (almost six times their wartime low), Greek 7s went to 27 (up from a low of 8), Danish 45 to 51 (from 20). And on the day after the African invasion the Amsterdam bourse had such a flood of hopeful buying (e.g. Royal Dutch 1,000-florin par went to 361, up 100 points from the month before) that the Nazis stepped...
Founded with the backing of Viscountess Rothermere in 1922, while T. S. Eliot was still on the staff of a London bank, The Criterion was expensive (7s. 6d -$1.75), highbrow, never attained a wide circulation (900). Yet its influence unquestionably exceeded that of any other English literary journal. Its first issue printed T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, probably the most influential modern poem. It was the first English periodical to publish the work of Marcel Proust, Paul Valery, Jean Cocteau, many another since-famed major European writer. The list of its contributors-James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia...
...city had heard. Later he organized the first U. S. Presbytery, became its first Moderator. In 1707 he was arrested in New York as a "strolling preacher" at the order of much-hated Lord Cornbury. Jailed for two months, he was tried and acquitted but forced to pay ?83 7s 6d in costs. Francis Makemie died in 1703 at his homestead in eastern Virginia, now called Makemie Park...
Wines. Duty on Empire sparkling wines increased from is 6d to 7s 6d per gallon. The present duty, ?4 per 112 lb. on imported hops (largely from the Pacific northwest) continued for another four years...
Anthropology 1, Anthropology 2, Chemistry 5, Economics 7s, Economics 25, English 11a, English 14, English 94, French 1, Geology 4, Government 19, Greek A, History 2a, History 12, Latin B, Military Science 1, Music 3, Physics D, Physics 1, Psychology 1, Psychology 10b, Sociology...