Word: distrusters
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Since this plan seemed to offer France her great desideratum - ready cash for stabilizing the franc - Premier Poincare stomached his hostility and distrust toward Germany. While a multitude of technical details remained to be negotiated, acceptance by France of Thoiry seemed assured. Acceptance by Germany was deemed a foregone conclusion and followed a few days later. Peace hovered...
...Hall has welcomed Oxford and Cambridge debaters in regular annual sequence. Audiences have listened in amused complaisance, marveling at the wit and sparkle of the English speakers, and then staunchly voted for the solid legal points of our opposition. It is not patriotism, it is rather a deep-seated distrust of what is clever...
...easily dismissed. Mr. Mencken may ignore it, laugh it off, or, if he chooses, attempt to prove its falsity. In a treacherous mood he may even admit its truth. But the second attack will linger maliciously in the memory of the public for it gives rise to a faint distrust in Mr. Mencken's evil genius...
...Neither side could have been more fortunate in its name. There is something that governs the universe, and always has governed it and always will govern it, that lies at the bottom of things. The minds and hearts of certain men will always turn to that Foundation, and will distrust disturbance. There is also movement there is progress, there is change, there is dynamic and creative thought there is new hope. In this wholly forward direction the minds and souls of other men will always turn. Is there a contest between the two ideas? Very likely; but why should there...
...significance lies, not especially in a general distrust of European government bonds, but rather in the spreading reluctance of chattel and security holders against expanding their credit obligations. In accordance with this picture, loans and discounts of Federal Reserve member banks continued to decline...