Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be followed by fresh achievements. They affirm further that success will be more readily won if the nations will rally to a new effort in the cause of peace, which can only be complete if it is applied in both the economic and political spheres. In the same document the signatory powers declare their intention to make every effort to resolve the problems which exist at the present moment or may arise subsequently in the spirit which has inspired the Lausanne agreement. In that spirit His Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom and the French Government decided themselves...
...this time of unprecedented economic and social distress," began the document, "the Democratic party declares its conviction that the chief causes of this condition were the disastrous policies pursued by our Government since the World War. . . . Those responsible [i.e. Republicans] have ruined our foreign trade, destroyed the values of our commodities and products, crippled our banking system, robbed millions of their life savings and thrown millions more out of work, produced widespread poverty and brought the Government to a state of financial distress unprecedented in time of peace. . . . The only hope lies in a drastic change...
...Englishman, one an Italian?washing sovereigns in a basin, counting and bagging them. The ecstatic crew galloped at their jobs, contemptuously trampling and scattering bundles of rupee notes on the after deck. Commander Quaglia saluted his visitors. One of the customs men showed Commander Quaglia an official document: "Sorry, sir. A warrant for the arrest of the gold...
Banker Adams dropped a document on Banker Morgan's desk. It was a power-of-attorney from the Deutsche Bank to buy $200,000,000 worth of U. S. bonds. Quickly James Stillman and other bankers were called, a syndicate formed, $62,000,000 of bonds bought from the Treasury. Stocks rose, the flow of gold was halted, trade began to revive as word spread that the emergency had been...
...editorial-writer takes modern "educators" to task for their emphasis on "method." Dean Holmes retorts that there are more things in method than are dreamed of in your editorial-writer's philosophy. What are these things? For an answer, we might well consult that interesting but none too literate document--the catalogue of the Graduate School of Education. Its scope is indicated, more or less, by the following courses, picked at random and quoted verbatim...