Word: fecundating
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...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...
Last week all but two members of the present Italian Cabinet read in the papers that their period of uninterrupted fecund activity is about over, prepared to write and receive the usual letters. According to "unofficial" announcements in the Italian press (which were passed by the official censor) II Duce plans to reorganize his Cabinet early next month, dropping everyone except "The Twins...
...bluff and hearty comment and finds a well-considered choosing of words too precious for its taste. Then there in this much-deplored age of sensation, which gives to the gentler diction of Charles Lamb's day something of the flatness of circus lemonade. There are also the over-fecund keys of typewriter and linotype, where flying fingers run riot in a manner unknown to the plodding scribe and compositor of an earlier day. Finally, there are the advertisers, who distill the strongest potations from Mr. Roget's Thesaurus to set off the merits of each new whisk-broom...
...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...
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...