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...demanded by Caillaux, was mentioned. The total payments in 62 years are to amount to $6,847,000,000 in principal and interest. The interest is calculated as none for five years, 1% for the next ten years and so on up to 3½% for the last 22 years???which signifies nothing, since this is a mere juggling of fictitious terms. Calculating interest at 4¼%, the present value of the proposed payments is just about 50% of the debt as it stands, or about 15% more than Caillaux's best offer...
...years an ever graying, ever dwindling host has held annual "encampments" in various sections of the U. S. As surely as August rolled around, so sure ly have the veterans of more than three score battles?and now of three score years???assembled and somehow marched, in spite of old wounds and infirmities...
...second day of the flood? worst in eight years???all traffic was suspended. There were no trains to Kobe or Yokohama. Uncountable thousands were homeless. Deaths were reported. Reservists were called out to guard the bridges. It rained...
...recorded life of the world for 50 years???wars, dreams, bankruptcies, inventions, good crops and bad crops, dead presidents, murdered archdukes, life in all its scuffle and fire, its dinginess, its mournful, miraculous beauty? passed under his direct scrutiny...
...want to give an old man's view of the developments of 57 years???not of events, because they do not count, but of permanent tendencies. . . . For one man who was then interested in the advancement of the Government and social order, there are 1,000 today...