Word: investive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Hoover took his protest against British restriction on the production of rubber by that body to invest $10,000,000 a year for five years in planting rubber trees in U.S. territory or in territory where there is no foreign restriction...
...editor of TIME, could consider the answers that Tchitcherin gave to the questions put before him anything but the essence of frankness, openness and the very opposite of "Machiavellian?" What could be less diplomatic than the answer to the second question, which says in effect: "If you invest your money abroad and a revolution comes along, take your loss like a sport and don't bellyache about it"; or the answer to the fourth: "France recognizes debts but does not pay them, while Russia doesn't recognize debts but seeks, nevertheless, to see if they cannot be arranged...
...children of inherited sensitivity, constitute no original motif. The stupid marriage and wry resignation of the son, the wary adventures in friendship and moderately happy marriage of the daughter, are not particularly gripping developments. The validity of such a story depends on the extent to which the author can invest mediocre personalities with, not alone human naturalness, but significant human naturalness. By that token, these Surrys are only soso; just small-town folks with no claims on reserved seats in the grandstand for famed literary characters. But Miss Hull is well worth reading; she gives pleasure. She is precise without...
...mind people who invest in yellow carnations with a big red "H" pasted on them, and my gizard stays pretty steady on seeing Harvard Square golfers buying their winning feathers after the game, but there are a couple of things which makes my gorge rise. The first and the lest offensive is the sticker craze. I suppose I'll have to stomach the exhibition of foreign baggage labels. I've got a few on my bags myself--but the stickers which explain in bold-faced type that Harvard College is responsible for a bag or a trunk and the manners...
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