10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «USUROUS»
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usurous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
usurous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
4. miserly, niggardly, penurious, parsimonious, chary, usurious, Obs. usurous,
tight, tight-listed, close, close-fisted, close-handed, Inf. stingy, Inf. cheap, narrow,
illiberal, grudging, scrimping, pinching; beggarly, meager, paltry, shabby, SI. two-
bit ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
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Wisconsin Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of ...
It is not claimed that the contract was usurous, but void, for want of capacity of the
bank to make it. Now, it appears to me, that the first section of this statute is
qualified and restricted by the provisions of the second section, and that they
must ...
Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, 1861
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Massachusetts Reports: Decisions of the Supreme Judicial ...
Although originally intended only as a security for the payment ofthe money and
the usurous- interest agreed upon; yet beingforfeitcd,» and the whole power of
redeemiuglt gone from Rounds, it has become payment. King for the defendant ...
Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court, 1821
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ...
It is not claimed that the contract was usurous, but void, for want of capacity of the
bank to make it. Now, it appears to me, that the first section of this statute is
qualified and restricted by the provisions of the second section, and that they
must ...
Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, 1861
The most pointed accusation of the poem is made in the fourth line: the babes are
'Fed with cold and usurous hand...'. The charitable institution works in an
impersonal and niggardly manner and it expects a return. No doubt the speaker
is ...
6
Godliness and Greed: Shifting Christian Thought on Profit ...
See also Christ Ridolfi, Lorenzo di Antonio: on usurous interest, 104
righteousness, 157; as equity, 164, 167; asjustice, 164, 179, 281; of Standard Oil
Co., 268n124; and virtue, 157 risk management, ix, xi. See also business ethics;
financial ...
7
The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats
And in this world of division, not only babes, but men in general are “Fed with
cold and usurous hand”; that is, we depend for our existence upon agencies
which are “cold” in the sense of external, no longer continuous with the
imagination, ...
In the second poem the description of the men who 'look after' the children is
negative: • Fed by cold usurous hand. This description is effective for a number of
reasons: • there isn't an actual person mentioned in this poem, which suggests
that ...
For decades regionalism and factionalism dominated. Within these environments
, precarious oligarchies and dictatorial caudillos agreed to usurous loans
fromprivate American and European investors whoinsistedupon exorbitant profits
...
Robert L. Scheina autofilled, 2003
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, second ...
Fed with cold and usurous hand?3 Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song
ofjoy? And so many children poor? It is a land of poverty! And their sun does
never shine. And their fields are bleak & bare. And their ways are fill'd with thorns
It ...
Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, 2010
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «USUROUS»
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usurous is used in the context of the following news items.
Your letters: Expensive Islamic financial products
The Latin term usurous, lending with interest, evolved to become lending with an interest rate that was considered by society to be abusive, unethical. Already in ... «Jakarta Post, Jun 15»
Payday Loan Company Endorsed by Montel Williams Is Fined for …
In 2013, the state sent cease-and-desist letters to 35 online lenders making allegedly usurous loans, the majority of whom, authorities say, stopped doing ... «TIME, Mar 15»
JOBLESS CLAIMS FALL MORE THAN EXPECTED
As the dollar gets hollowed out by the Fed, and tax bites increase on working Americans, many workers go 'off the books' (why pay usurous tax rates when you ... «Business Insider, Jul 14»
Piketty's Reality? The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Instead, lower savings and hyper-available credit (remember fraudulent Countrywide mortgages and usurous re-fi's?) put the middle and bottom portions of our ... «Firedoglake, May 14»
Bitcoin burglar bags a million bucks
But if the same person is behind the name, it's not hard to see why they may have been targeted: usurous money-lenders who don't perform well on contracting ... «Register, Nov 13»
Wondering what that film crew's doing on Alki this morning?
http://www.moneytreeinc.com/moneytree/media/payday-loans/WA-fee-table.jpg. Why would you want to defend unethical, usurous business practices, MJC? «West Seattle Blog, Jul 12»
Infographic: All The Genetically Modified Food You're Eating
Real non-Babylonian economy was regenerative, not usurous and exploitative in nature. It's in the MIND that we become confused--where do people get the ... «Fast Company, Oct 11»
The attraction of Lending Club
That's a healthy return, for a fixed-income investment, without being usurous as far as the borrowers are concerned. Indeed, that's one of the reasons I like this ... «Reuters, Apr 09»
