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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Gold, Gold, Gold | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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...

Author: By The Dartmouth, | Title: "SHORTS" CAMPAIGN, NOW DORMANT, WILL AGAIN BE PURSUED NEXT SPRING | 10/25/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: New No. 2 Man | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...would take a hen, however earnest and diligent, 240,000 years to lay as many eggs as a female oyster will toss into the water on a single midsummer day. No less splendidly fecund is the male who will presently fertilize this brood. A few weeks elapse, and upon some clean, hard rock begins the life-struggle of 60,000,000 infant oysters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bluepoints, Inc. | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Stephenam Victor Joseph Noel Otto alias Otto Debeney, 29, jokester, took his own life in his native city of Brussels, last week, by leaping from the third story window of a dingy lodging house. Gallant and daring his spirit, fecund his imagination. In 1919, after deserting from the Belgian Army, he appeared in Coblenz dressed as a Belgian officer. Announcing himself as an emissary from King Albert, he decorated Major General Henry Tureman Allen, commander of U. S. forces in Germany, with the Belgian Military Medal of Honor and kissed him on both cheeks. The ceremony was performed before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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