Word: cheapness
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...chief of police a capable disciplinarian. But before a citizen can be a lawyer, he must pass a strenuous bar examination. Those who are successful in business eat at the costly restaurants run by their fellow citizens, while the poor must forego deserts and cakes and eat at cheap lunch rooms...
...other party believe the present rate should be kept up, lest cheap money lead to inflation. The Reserve authorities were severely criticised for not establishing a high rate in 1920, and apparently they wish to avoid such criticism in the future, especially in the The of our present large gold reserves...
...price of copper in New York and London began to climb, and until copper shares in Wall Street began to advance even through a generally declining stock market. Meanwhile all is not peaceful in the American copper industry; considerable dispute has risen over a proposed tariff to shut out cheap foreign production. Every copper company is taking sides according to its interests. Leading companies to suffer by such a tariff are: Anaconda, with extensive production in Chile through ownership of the Chile Copper Co.; Kennecott, which owns Breden Copper, also in Chile; Phelps-Dodge and Green Cananea, with hold-ings...
...Yesterday young Sidis was wearing a cheap brown suit, much too tight for his fleshy frame. He had not been shaved; his reddish mustache was a ragged fringe that appeared to have been whacked off with a pair of manicure scissors. His mop of mouse-colored hair was in need of trimming. His necktie was in a hard knot that did not come within inches of his collar...
...alike, have laid their unwanted children in the arms of charity? Have you heard of the tarnished fame of Hell's Kitchen as it used to be? Sailors Snug Harbor, where a thousand old seamen find refuge and a little security after many storms; the Bowery Mission; the cheap, grudgingly-charitable men's hotel that Mr. Dreiser calls the "wayplace of the fallen;" old Samuel Clampitt's junkyard on 135th Street by the Harlem River, with its stuttering hunched proprietor who kept savage Great Danes in his yard-Mr. Dreiser can take you to them...