Word: flowingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...value upon his own thinking. By that time the chances are that he no longer studies as a child, to satisfy a requirement, or fill so many hours with a book in his lap. Study has become a real intellectual experience--a recuperative process by which new ideas flow into his mind...
Observers were inclined to agree that the Italian debt-funding arrangement would soon bring France to another attempt at settlement. She is the only great nation that has not come to terms, and the flow of private U. S. credit into Italy after the Italian agreement is an inducement to similar action by the French. Also the French press intimated that France would now expect terms as lenient as the Italian...
When the spotlight of publicity was turned on, the resignation of the worthies began to flow in. Secretary Wilbur resigned when he "came to doubt the enthusiasm of the people who should have been most interested." Senator Copeland resigned saying he had decided on a course which he had "contemplated for several weeks." Senator McNary, when informed of what was happening, exclaimed: "I make it a practice of investigating things eventually. It is not my habit to be associated with matters in which fraud or impracticability appears. Of course, I shall investigate this...
Meanwhile, a higher rate for the Bank of England is predicted very soon. Such a change would permit the New York Federal Reserve Bank to lift its rate to 4% without causing a flow of gold from Britain to this country-a most undesirable development in the British effort to hold sterling exchange at par. In England the Boston rate-move is thought to foreshadow an advance by the Bank of England...
Last week the Pere Marquette Railroad announced successful experiments with an automatic train control similar to the device announced by the Chicago & Northwestern a month ago ( TIME, Oct. 5). Electro-magnetic waves flow into the rails, are picked up by coils under the locomotive's pilot or cowcatcher," condensed, transmitted to signal devices in the engineer's cab. If the engineer is incapacitated or heedless, the current proceeds to operate controls, braking, throttling, halting the train. The incoming signals are despatched automatically by the block towers along the line and keep engineers informed of the condition of each...