Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belief. Does Japan already have a secret war chest-tons of gold bullion salted down before her yen went off the gold standard? (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931). Rumors persist in Tokyo that this treasure exists, but such secrets are always well kept. To this day Germans do not know whether their Imperial Government really had a War Chest in 1914. Fabulous but kindling to Teuton imaginations, it was supposed to consist of four huge vaults set in living rock beneath a ruined castle, the combinations of the vaults being known only to Kaiser Wilhelm II and to two officers...
...these students are dudes, toughs, and gladiators. This situation may exist in the Cantabrigian institution, but the number does not dictate student sentiment. The moral corruption and extravagance rests almost solely in a limited class. It is in this group only that little study, fast life and immoral actions persist...
...their theories as fast as they were contradicted by facts. In 1885 Friedrich Engels pointed out-and the world was then still in the grip of the crisis that had begun in 1873-that Capitalist production could not be stabilized, but must go on increasing if Capitalism was to persist. What would happen, he asked, on the day when, because of American exports to Europe, the British lion's part in supplying the world with goods should come to a standstill? How could Capitalism get out of that dilemma? "Nevertheless, after twelve years of an apparently insoluble crisis. Capitalism...
...nation should persist in efforts to bolster up its currency by blocking international exchange across its frontier -something which all the Balkan nations and many another are now doing...
William Macbeth died in 1917, but the ideas, the blood of the Founder persist. The Gallery is now operated by his son Robert and his nephew Robert G. McIntyre, as a stronghold of workmanlike, conservative painting. Rotund Robert Macbeth will have no truck with modernists, publishes blasts against such violent fellows as Pablo Picasso...