Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is very easy to get for trifling projects but almost impossible to get for anything worthwhile. . . . It is harder for me to get 5? to buy a lead pencil than to get $1,000 to teach hobbies to CCC boys. . . . At the present time there is a vast flow of silver-I won't say gold-spreading out all over the country like mud. . . . For God's sake put some of it into stone and steel...
...There Wise Fools" is not a new play--it was presented in Boston and elsewhere a respectable number of years ago--but it still has a gentle comedy and a steady if somewhat pedestrian flow. It tells the story of three old bachelors whose moribund routine is upset by the will of their former sweetheart leaving them the care of her offspring who proves to be a very pretty girl and a good one even if she does have some shadowy connections with the underworld. Fundamentally it is one of those things which the playwrighting Spewacks diagnose as "Boy meets...
...safely locked up in the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund. Meantime the 59? dollar sank for three weeks straight in international exchange. Last week both the French franc and Dutch guilder were near the gold export point. Metal shipments to Europe were expected to start shortly, reversing a flow which, with one minor interruption, has gone on since the dollar was devalued just two years ago last week...
...from 45% to 55% (TIME, Feb. 3). Some bankers believe that even if the Board shut down, as it can. on all market credit, a fancy boom could occur on a cash basis. Their point is that while credit may be shut off at one spigot it might still flow at another, spill into the market since as soon as it is disbursed by check one man's credit becomes another man's cash...
...people simply condemn what condemns them. . . . My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image. . . . My detachment from things and persons is also affectionate, and simply what the ancients called philosophy: I consent that a flowing river should flow; I renounce that which betrays, and cling to that which satisfies, and I relish the irony of truth; but my security in my own happiness is not indifference to that of others: I rejoice that every one should have his tastes and his pleasures. That...