Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great drain on U. S. gold. After England suspended gold payments (Sept. 21), the U. S. lost $730,000,000 in six weeks, heaviest gold movement in history. Meanwhile U. S. citizens, alarmed at the spectacle of vanishing gold and failing banks, began to hoard, putting a severe and needless strain on the banking structure. When National Credit Corp. was announced (Oct. 7), foreign bankers misunderstood its purpose, sold dollars so heavily that the pressure bore the appearance of an attack...
...Houses has recently made a regulation which can result only in needless irritation. It stipulates that no undergraduate shall be admitted to the House who has previously been a member of another. Even in the cases of unusual circumstances, no exceptions can be made since it would be breaking the "traditions" of the House...
...Needless to say, the Guild has set and acted this magnificent comedy magnificently...
...Laura La Plante) marries his friend, who is a colonel. Later, to preserve the morals of her young sister, she compromises the lieutenant so seriously that he nearly loses his commission. Based on Augustus Thomas' play Arizona, which was produced in 1899, Men Are Like That seems a needless survival of an insignificant intrigue. A typically trite shot is the one with which the picture starts: an Army-Navy football game which the hero wins by kicking a field goal...
...Needless to say, I am sending the information which I have found in TIME'S pages (TIME, April...