Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would extend Federal credit down through industry and private corporations to Governor Roosevelt's famed "forgotten man." Both relief theories are based on the same assumption, namely, that debtors are to be tided over until prices rise to restore solvency. Without that price rise either theory would obviously fail, leaving in its wake a widespread form of government ownership...
...producing inhibin, the absence of which 2) causes pituitary overactivity, which in turn 3) stimulates the androtin-producing cells of the gonads to sufficient activity to bring about 4) enlargement of the prostate gland. If this is true, prostatic hypertrophy can take place only when the inhibin-producing cells fail before the androtin-producing cells of the same glands. Then enlargement of the prostate may be cured by administration of inhibin until the glands have ceased to function altogether...
...Joachim Burthe, scion of an upper-crust family poverty-stricken in Republican Germany, yearns to do something to save his suffering post-War world. Member of a revolutionary society, he connives at plots to assassinate the Minister to whom Germany's great depression is attributed. When the plots fail Joachim determines to commit the murder himself...
...Dominions must not think we are not grateful for the trade preferences they have already given us," Mr. Baldwin told the Commons, "but they must not fail to realize what a tremendous thing this free entry we have now given them is.* . . . Certain Dominions will be asked at Ottawa to consider whether they have not gone a little too fast in industrial development, both for their own good and for that of the Empire as a whole...
...system and look carefully through the pages. If it is to have the effect which the men who compiled the book hoped it would have, it should be printed in the cheapest possible editions, and be broadcast throughout every literate nation. If it is widely enough seen it cannot fail of that effect. "The Horror of It" is an example of militant pacifism, in contrast to the pacifism which sits back and whines because it does not like fighting. Such pacifism shows the proper way to attack war. Reducing armaments without destroying the poisonous spirit which makes wars possible...