Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your club strikes the ball with the force and angle which you intended, hits the green short of the flag and rolls into the cup, it did so in obedience to certain laws of physics which you set into action. Every molecule was doing its duty. This was your motive and intent...
...seller's market, with the price per bushel rising from 85? in July to $1.28 in December. Rye went up; so did lard; so did sugar. But no general inflation of prices occurred immediately. It was as if someone had turned on a strange magnetic current which attracted certain commodities, repelled others...
...their new doughnut-shaped rubber oxygen mask (TIME, Jan. 16). Oxygen administered in hospitals through cumbersome, complicated oxygen tents usually costs a patient $12 to $25 a day. Use of the small, neat inhalation mask, said Dr. Boothby, "should average only $5 to $8 a day," and in certain cases a patient "can be taught the entire technique of administering the oxygen to himself at home...
...change. There was a sound of pumping and draining and I could hear the drip, drip of a liquid. Although my brain didn't hurt at all, it did hurt me when one of the instruments fell on to the glass with a sharp, metallic sound. A certain idea passing through my mind hurt me too. It had nothing to do with my present situation...
Today Government spending exceeds Government revenues by about $1,000,000,000 a quarter. By next spring the Government's deficit spending will probably be down to $600,000,000 a quarter. New Dealers, certain of a slump, were last week in a mood to let events take their course in order to tell Congress afterwards "I told you so." If there is no slump-the shoe will be on the other foot. Rather than sit back and tell the country to watch Congress ruin it, New Dealers may yet decide to go their own way and claim credit...