Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learns and understands the principles, he is then in a position to do a little selling, and once he reaches the stage where he can call on banks, bankers, and other investors, he will be able not only to understand their requirements and give them the service that they need and the information about securities which his House can offer, but he is also able year by year to increase his volume of business, and also to make himself materially valuable to his House...
...need a revision of the banking laws and we also need a revision of what constitutes general prosperity...
...taken to indicate that the Treasury does not expect "cheaper" money for some months. Last week the Treasury made public the fact that it was considering the plan of selling non-interest-bearing Treasury bills. These securities would be offered to the public not quarterly but as the Government needed money. They would fall due at income tax dates or other times when the Government expected to be able to pay them off. They would have to be sold below par and the difference between the purchase and redemption values would constitute the interest yield. This system is now used...
...swarmed a horde of Britishers eager to see 17th Century Dutch cows and a 20th Century Dutch Queen at the same time. Queen Emma, unmoved, strode through the galleries for four and a half hours more. She at no time seemed fatigued or in need of sitting down. At dusk she was still chatty and firm on her feet as she boarded her train back to The Hague. The entire trip took 28 hours...
There is nothing startlingly new, of course, in this plan. It is an adaptation of Plato's groups of gold and brass and iron men to the needs of a more heterogeneous society than existed in Periclean Athens. But there is a sensible presentation of the modern problem with sensible emphasis on the need for right feeling among representative men. The ideas are not presented with as much persuasiveness as might be wished. Outstanding is the annoying fault of unnecessary repetition of phrases and explanations, as for example the constant definition of mana and miasma, which in the 538 pages...