Word: fecund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were up to $4,500,000,000 last week, down in Britain to $750,000,000. The gold theory of the MacDonald Government (TIME, Dec. 1) is that the "stupendous hoard" of gold in the U. S. and France has become "largely sterilized" and must be got somehow into "fecund international circulation" before British prosperity, world prosperity or even U. S. prosperity can return...
...renders a great part of it "sterile." In London "sterilization" has become a common, an ominous word. It rolls glibly off the tongue pf the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas as a stock excuse for Britain's troubles. If only this sterile gold were put into fecund circulation, reasons Mr. Thomas, if only the three-fifths of the World's gold held by two nations were more widely distributed, then there would be a great quickening of world trade, a return of general prosperity...
Banker Roberts concluded that as confidence is restored in foreign investment fields, as situations like that created in Germany by Adolf Hitler are smoothed over, the U. S.-French "sterilized" gold will begin to circulate abroad again in fecund fashion. "With a free flow of capital between nations the gold problem will take care of itself...
Here is an opportunity gentlemen, for the fecund imagination of Dartmouth to produce something other than forward steps in educational line. Here is a chance to be different with a vengeance, not for the sake of being different but in the name of good sense...
...recognize that after nearly five years of uninterrupted, fecund activity you have almost the right to ask a change in order to re-enter the ranks of the Black Shirts. It is not without regret, however, that I fulfill your desires...