Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...value if the public interest in the future should require an increase in the amount of gold designated as a dollar. . . . "Permit me once more to stress two principles: Our National currency must be maintained as a sound currency which, in so far as possible, will have a fairly constant standard of purchasing power and be adequate for the purposes of daily use and the establishment of credit. "The other principle is the inherent right of Government to issue currency and to be the sole custodian and owner of the base or reserve of precious metals underlying that currency. With...
Stabilization. "Careful investigation and constant study prove that in the matter of foreign exchange rates, certain of our sister nations find themselves so handicapped by internal and other conditions that they feel unable at this time to enter into stabilization discussions based on permanent and world-wide objectives." (For foreign rage at this blame-laying...
...silent senseless repose of the dead, but Death hanging over slowly departing life; not Death which comes suddenly, mercifully to the well-born for whom it is the apoplectic end of surfeit, but Death which racks life from the poor with retching hunger, foul disease, the constant ache of physical exhaustion. Death is here no surcease but a prolonged torture. The artist conveys the sense of this by unnaturally hollowed and skull-like faces, by hands which are bony in spite of their muscularity; the quality and effect of this she draws into the bent bodies, the downcast eyes...
...turned than does that of Trollope. While Wallace is frequently boring, his work is also at times better than one would expect--due, I suppose, to the fact that the tricks and devices upon which he relies have been proven to be sure-fire through years of constant...
...into hot water because she imported foreign intellectuals (notably Descartes) to liven up the heavy Scandinavian atmosphere. When she decided that she had had enough of being ruler, she amazed Europe by abdicating, going to Rome to live. There, although she had turned Roman Catholic she was a constant source of embarrassment to the authorities by her loud, eccentric and unladylike behavior. On a visit to the King of France and in the presence of the entire court "she often rested her feet on a chair as high as the one on which she was sitting." laughed at jokes...