Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual and crucial questions before the country are national finances, international relations, and public prosperity...
...this crucial point several of the patriarchs in pants positively refused to be shaved. They pointed out that the Koran enjoins all Moslems to go bearded and turbaned, like the True Prophet. Enough to have transgressed the first of these commandments! By the Beard of the Prophet they swore they would not be shaved...
...that is important. It is the principle of the thing, the example to others, the patriotic performance of one's civic duty. Unfortunately, it was discovered last week, the California law will prevent Nominee Hoover from casting his vote by mail. He had planned to be in the crucial East on the eve of the election. Plans were changed...
...last came the final rabble of cardinals, marshals, courtiers, to observe the rest of the ceremony: royal breeches and hose, royal shirt by way of the First Valet of the Wardrobe, to the Grand Master of the Wardrobe, to the Dauphin, to the King. "At this crucial moment, while the nightshirt was off and the day-shirt not yet on, one little concession was made to the King's privacy. Two valets held up the King's dressing gown as a screen...
...year, the total of such loans has risen from $906,144,000 to $1,808,645,000. To the corporations, this practice seems both obvious and admirable. But to the paternal superbankers, guarding the money market, it appears highly hazardous, deeply disturbing. Last week, the issue became acute, the crucial phase of the war of the bankers and the speculators. Clear were the battle-lines. Corporations contended simply that 5½% or 6% is better than 2%. Bankers argued: 1) that the money market will never be stable, settled, with such a staggering amount of money on call, likely...