Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harness opium to his Treasury chariot, he may find a way to balance the Chinese budget for some time to come, may find opium an aid in standing off the U. S. silver producers who want to unload on China a silver loan (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week Senator Key Pittman of silver-surplussed Nevada announced in Washington that he will sail next month to confer with Dr. Soong...
...have been true. As to the second, my wife and the children take care of all the plants in our garden. Cut off the end and plant the cutting in some warm moist earth in your office and see if it will bloom for you. RALPH B. BOYDEN Key West...
...Many of us would be astonished if we knew how many surgeons, lawyers, actors and men in many other professions are accustomed to use stimulants before they are to perform an operation or when they want to key themselves up to meet an important situation...
Awards for merit are only the external symbols of actual achievement, which in itself is an absolute quantity, not subject to the fickleness of public opinion. In intellectual or athletic superiority, symbolized by the "key" or the "Y", achievement in separate instances does not represent the same amount of ability or effort on the part of the individual...
...versatile scholar or athlete real success is insignificant compared to the one who has achieved despite handicaps. In the case of the former, the "key" by no means represents equal ability or effort except within certain limits, above which there are many variations...