Word: fiat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fiat Besson cornet with C attachment for sale. Write or apply at 18 Felton Hall, Cambridge...
...three crews were even until the last few strokes, when Bancroft's boat spurted ahead four feet. Harding's crew came in second, with Hodges's six feet behind. The time was 5 minutes fiat...
...issue, saying that the only question was as to the relative merits of the gold and the bimetallic standards. Any ratio which the negative could offer would fail. If the ratio adopted were 16 to 1, this would be an attempt to double the value of silver by government fiat. Whatever the ratio, business men would prefer gold to silver, because the former is certainly stable. Business domands certainty as to the future. How could it be shown that some political troubles would not entirely shatter that league, and bring about the worst commercial crisis ever knownn Another fatal objection...
...class do consider their participation in said scrimmage compatible with their cultivation and their gentlemanliness. In this they apparently differ from the Corporation, but it can hardly be that that body intend to pronounce judgment on a difference of such a nature, and, on this ground, to issue a fiat regulating the conduct of the gentlemen who take exception to their opinion. If so, their action in the premises would be comparable to the evidence offered by the sceptic who seeks to deny the fundamental laws of thought. I leave logicians to trace the analogy...
...Tariff Reductions and Fiat Money...