Word: avert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ring" will begin to buy and sell. At the close of the day, the last quotations will be chalked up on a blackboard. On the following day, traders may not advance or lower these quotations (per pound) by more than 50?. Thus the exchange authorities hope to avert sudden panics. If every bank in Japan failed overnight, the price of silk could not vary by more than 50?* on the next...
...been the richest man in Germany, for a time, while the mark was falling, and he was building great pyramided super-trusts. What? Fraulein Stinnes shrugged. Why trouble to rehearse the details of her father's death and the titanic business crash which her brothers were powerless to avert. Clarenore Stinnes is 22, lives in the present, is rich...
...Republican leaders know that as against Gov. Smith their local tickets in the cities all the way from Boston to Chicago are going to be dangerously threatened. Naturally they are looking for a Presidential candidate who looks as if he might avert this danger...
...believes in the League of Nations method, one must practice it. It is not worth while to proclaim its benefits every year during one month only, to return during eleven other months to tactics which failed to avert the World War. That is the reason why I will not go to Geneva...
...please this or that nation we consent to take international differences away* from the League of Nations and accustom the Gov ernment to consider that they can escape its judgment, how can we appeal to the Covenant of the League [to avert war] when, between 1935 and 1940, the critical hour, forecast? and awaited by Mussolini, strikes...