Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force France off the gold standard, force down the value of both franc and pound, but it would destroy every trade advantage that the U. S. has gained from the cheapening of the dollar in foreign exchange. Only way to prevent this is by buying sterling and francs as fast as those currencies are sold by Americans who want to bring their money home. Instead of allowing the hundreds of millions of U. S. capital abroad to be brought home, the Treasury will in effect have to take over that capital
Erie Canal. This sectional point was wisely not brought out in the minority committee report written by Senator Wagner. "The very core of the St. Lawrence plan," said he, "is the intent to face the railroads with competition, and thus to decrease activity in one industry as fast as it is created in another.'' The President anticipated all such arguments by stating in his special message: "It is, I believe, a historic fact that every great improvement to better commercial communications, whether in the case of railroads into new territory, or the deepening of great rivers...
...real treat of the meeting came, however, when the world president was able to present to the sisters her old friend and colleague, Billy Sunday, who was in just the mood to give a fine imitation of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion. Unfortunately, Mr. Sunday spoke so fast that no one was able to hear him, not even these in the first rows who had been laced there because they were hard of hearing. Despite being understandable, Mr. Sunday was anything but inarticulate. Repeal, he says "will fill the streets with staggering, reeling, maudlin, stewing drunkards"; moreover...
Coming from behind twice before the final whistle, the Junior Varsity hockey team arose to the occasion to defeat a fast-skating Milton sextet on its home ice yesterday afternoon by a score of 6-4. Robert H. Rawson '36 rang up the winning goal, while William C. Quimby '36 contributed the final tally...
...will put himself in the impossible position of refusing to protect the sanctity of English property in this hemisphere and preventing that country from doing it herself. So no matter what he does he is sure to be doubly damned. The only possible way out it to move fast in Cuba and restrain the government down there. This is a task which would be rendered infinitely easier by the recognition of the existing government and the complete abandonment of the Stimson Doctrine as a diplomatic weapon...