Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absolute need and desirability of a controlled expansion of credit. To the preposterous moral arguments about the abrogation of the gold clause, he replies with humor, and point to the obvious realities regarding promises to pay in gold that extend far beyond the resources of banks and governments. The curious and widely-accepted talk about the New Deal's communism or fascism, he answers with the support given it in those years by the representatives of the decidedly non-communist and non-fascist American people. The wailing over the holding companies is irrelevant, he writes, to what is simply...
...what curious process of thinking did University Hall come to the conclusion that vice walks unattended or virtue walks in pairs? It seems possible that the DuBarrys of Cambridge and Allston can be induced to pool their assets for the benefit of a group party, and then joy may reign unconfined in the Houses with the blessings of both janitors and House Masters...
...Curious part of the decreased crop estimate was that in the Eastern half of the cotton belt, cotton prospects had improved during August to the tune of 264,000 bales. In the Western half cotton conditions had gone from bad to worse. In August Oklahoma had only one twenty-fifth of its normal rainfall. That cut 226,000 bales off its estimated production. Texas, which normally produces one out of every three bales, had less than half a normal August's rain. That cut off 814,000 bales. Other Western states accounted for the rest...
...graduate of Harvard with the class of 1932 Mr. Snow is a teacher of history in the Winthrop High School. It is not academic history which he writes, but a curious kind of travel-book history, both in content and in form. One can find out how to reach the islands as well as what happened on them in days...
...nothing. A man? Hah. ... He is everything. There is not anything in the world that is not open to him." So said comely, blue-eyed Zdenek Koubek last week, through an interpreter, as he sat cross-legged on the deck of the lie de France. Because of his curious medical history, he was journeying to Manhattan to appear in a cabaret. Born in Bohemia 23 years ago, the child was pronounced a girl, christened Zdenka Koubkova. She grew up as a sturdy, sport-loving maiden. She set Czechoslovak women's records in the broad jump, high jump, a half...