Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporary and probably an artificial stability in foreign exchange on the part of a few large countries only." Last week U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and French Finance Minister Vincent Auriol got together by transatlantic and trans-Channel telephone and apparently achieved precisely what the President had derided in 1933. Mr. Morgenthau was of course acting for the President, but at Hyde Park last week Mr. Roosevelt did not actually eat any words, refused absolutely to comment on the reduction of the French franc to a new value...
...Paris for months and years the franc has been repeatedly hammered by lack of confidence which has ebbed & flowed like an erratic financial tide. Each time panic was in the air, huge shipments of French gold have been piled aboard transatlantic steamers and trans-Channel planes. Such "flights from the franc" have more than once been at a faster rate than they were last week -but with that obstinacy which is a leading French characteristic, Cabinet after Cabinet in Paris refused to yield and cheat possessors of francs by reducing the value of the money in their hands until...
...mercurial Pound began in 1913, until her death. She was never more magnificent than when confronted by ill-natured opponents in a lecture-room. On the other hand, there was never a fairer opponent than she, nor one more ready to make friends again. Yet polemics provided but one channel for the immense energy Miss Lowell devoted to the cause. It is good to learn that her patronage, far from being the indiscriminate largesse to favorites and bribery of editors that Pound and other charged, was on the contrary tactfully and intelligently bestowed. As a propagandist, her industry in writing...
...night before I met Commodore MacFarlane, I set sail from what is now the San Francisco Yacht Harbor for Sausalito. In mid-channel the wind dropped and with a strong ebb: tide we drifted out through the Golden Gate. In those days, as many of the old-timers will remember, we had no auxiliary power, as sailors, men of the old school felt they could put their vessels into most any place they desired under their own sail by the old fashioned method known as "jayhawking." Drifting through the Gate a dense fog came in and I suggested...
...female (ovarian) pseudo-hermaphrodites, after removal of the male-like appendages, the usual problem is to correct the vagina if it is rudimentary, or to create one if it is missing. The late Dr. L. Grant Baldwin of Columbus, Ohio, solved this difficult problem by cutting a channel into the pelvis, lining it with a narrow U-shaped loop of the patient's own intestine. After some time the inner loop of the U was removed, leaving the outer wall to form a mucous membranal tract resembling the normal vagina...