Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reserve Bank raised its rediscount rate from 3 to 3 1/2 % (TiME, Mar. 9), financial London at once showed something nearly akin to excitement. If the pound sterling is to be put back on a gold basis shortly, gold shipments to the U. S. must be prevented; and the easiest way of doing this is to keep London interest rates higher than those in Manhattan. This, of course, tends to attract capital from the U. S. to the British center, and so support the exchange rate for sterling with U. S. dollars...
...argue that many men take advantage of the free elective system to take the easiest courses. True, but those men would not get much out of education...
...staid person is the easiest to shock. What can shock New England is hardly considered worth mentioning in Central America...
...buildings and can be almost comfortable. He can, experience has shown again and again, drop 600 ft. without losing a particle of consciousness. He has indeed to rehearse his movements, but the pulling of the conveniently placed "rip cord"-a flexible cable which releases the pilot chute-is the easiest and most natural thing...
...good thing, but it needs to be approached with circumspection, else in the capturing it yields and entirely vanishes. But many-a great many-Filipino politicians are not concerned with independence, for the advocacy of it gains their ends; and to achieve independence would deprive them of their easiest road to office. So they play with the independence idea and, with a true gift for the dramatic, dress it in a thousand garbs and adorn it with a thousand gestures. Now they squabble with the Governor General; now they send themselves a-junketing to Washington; always they play with...