Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game of hide and seek which President Roosevelt is playing with the advocates of sound money and inflation is a grim one. The only inescapable fact in the situation is that the government can relieve material suffering, and at the same time stimulate Industrial activity by issuing flat money or "flat" deposits on a large scale, or by forgetting to balance the budget...
...issuing flat money or flat deposits, or by failing to balance the budget, the government would precipitate the country into a worse state than it is in now, then flat money should not be issued, and the budget should be balanced. But if, on the other hand, there is no such qualifying consideration, then the flat money should be issued and the budget should not be balanced. There appears to be no such definition of issues at Washington. The inflationists admit that they would resort to the strychnine of rising prices in order to keep the patient alive through...
...Murphy's former stoop to a spinal affliction. For years he "favored" several broken ribs by a forward-bending posture. His Minneapolis osteopath straightened him up by massaging the nerve centre in the small of the back, by directing Publisher Murphy to lie for a period each day flat on the floor with his hand under the small of his back. - ED. Ed for Ep Sirs: Who is the Sculptor Edstein, who is mentioned in the limerick which heads the article on Gertrude Stein (Sept. 11, p. 57)? Was TIME, usually so meticulous in the accuracy of its details...
...semi-finals : he suffered from night sweats, a twisted knee and palpitations of the heart. After the rest, during which Crawford admitted to his doctor that he felt dizzy. Perry ran out on the court apparently fresher than when the match began. He ran off three games, his flat drives equaling anyone's for speed. Crawford let him blaze out the set at love. In the last set, Crawford's gesture of patting his chest as though his heart or his lungs hurt him, became more noticeable. He managed to break through Perry's serve...
...lately uncovered: Whereas Missouri State Life had liabilities of $146,000,000, its assets were $27,000,000 below that figure. Last week a Missouri judge handed Missouri State Life over to David Milton, J. D. Rockefeller Jr.'s son-in-law master of Equity Corp., for a flat...