Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arises the question how do you acquire an even flow of language? Well I have discovered a very convenient pons assinorum. My little "donkey-bridge" is provided by Messrs. Corneille, Racine Petrarch or any of the minor Latin poets. Read them with all their umtadee-umtadee-um for about five minutes before you go on the air and you will be astonished at the results...
...upheavals are mere "incidents") a great deal depends upon the number of people who have been trained to keep their mental powder dry, oven when all around them it rains oratorical cats and dogs. For when the clouds of debate and strife shall have been dispersed by the inevitable flow of fresh commonsense, it is these boys of the Great Aloofness who will have to pick up the pieces and start the work of reconstruction. I don't want to get too involved in my flowery tirade, but those who have ears to hear will undoubtedly know what I mean...
...Utilities Power & Light's directorate, Mr. Odium crossed the Atlantic to find a buyer. This he did last week. The buyer was the London branch of the international banking house of Lazard Freres, acting for a British group. The benefits of Mr. Odium's Atlas Corp. will flow from its Utilities Power & Light bonds, which jumped about five points last week, the 5% issue rising to 75? on the dollar, the 5½% issue to 78?. When & if the Utilities Power & Light directors vote part of the proceeds of the British sale for bond retirement, Atlas Corp. will...
...front porch of the 200-year-old farmhouse, Secretary Ickes pulled a handle on an electric switch box, announced: "I now start the flow of power into the arteries of this farmstead." Actually he did nothing of the sort because the switch box was only a ceremonial dummy and power was already flowing through Rosedale Farm. Inside the farmhouse were electric clocks, an air-cooling system, a vacuum cleaner with headlights, refrigerator, dishwasher, food-mixer, curling irons. In the farm shop lathes and tools were electrically operated. Wood was cut by an electric saw. In the brooder house chicks were...
...about to take another rise as a result of the payment of the Bonus, the Reserve Board estimating that the total will be about $3,400,000,000 by mid-August. This will be merely a delayed rise, since the real cause of mounting bank reserves is the flow of foreign gold...