Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current crisis differs so widely in such important respects from those that have gone before that any prognostication is more than usually hazardous. In the first place, this is the first crisis in what may be termed normal conditions that the Federal Reserve System has experienced-not that anyone doubts its ability to extend any or all accomodation that may be needed. Its reserve ratio the past year or more has been between 70 or 75 per cent some 30 per cent above the legal minimum. Indeed, this unprecedented gold revenue may be said to have indirectly been behind...
With a true American love of spectacles, the participants in the stock market have entered the realm of the stimulati, and they have gone about it in such a way that Mr. Ziegfeld's male interludes are conspicuously unassuming in comparison. The bears rush in to start the ball rolling, and the debacle begins. One hundred million dollars are rushed to the scene and big business sits back to reassure the public that all is well. The next day, a record sale of sixteen million shares is recorded, and the journalists throw up their hands and begin to put their...
...report attempts the impossible in its striving for generalizations on football. Its attendant evils are largely endemic throughout the East, yet we are fully aware that the Middle and Far West have gone berserk over the sport. The futility of classifying Harvard and Princeton in the motley group of colleges and universities guilty of proselyting and commercialism is a case in point. It is regrettable that these two universities have been denied the first flush of exoneration that it was Yale's good fortune to receive, but their convincing refutation of the charges which were leveled against them...
...complained that the late spring had deprived them of an opportunity to see the countryside aglow with Sweden's famed roses. Herr Kreuger asked the visitors to tea at one of his country homes. When they arrived they discovered everywhere rosebushes in full bloom: adroit Herr Kreuger had gone to Stockholm hothouses, arranged for roses to meet the visiting...
Anxiously Mme Delacroix listened to her husband's breathing. She remembered that when the Young Plan Committee was sitting in Paris, Britain's great Banker Baron Revelstoke had gone to bed similarly weary and died of heart failure before dawn (TIME, Jan. 14 to June 17). Banker Delacroix's sleep seemed normal, however, and soon his wife was asleep too. About 5 a. m. she felt his hand on her shoulder: "I am feeling ill." To the telephone flew...