Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pound depreciated faster than the dollar. In two days nearly $30,000,000 of gold was ordered shipped from Europe. Heavy purchases in the London gold market far exceeded the relatively small amount of newly mined gold for sale there. Since the Bank of England is not a seller of gold, the gold merchants turned to gold standard nations, particularly France, sold sterling to buy francs, converted francs into gold for shipment to the U. S. This selling of sterling forced down the pound (which the British equalization fund did not support) faster than the dollar. At one time...
What Did Not Happen, and what President Roosevelt wanted most of all, was a thundering upward surge in commodity prices. Wheat moved up a paltry 1? per bushel to 92?, cotton added less thian ½? a pound. But corn, oats, rye, barley remained practically unchanged. Commodity tables duly recorded the weekly range of gold per ounce: low-$34.45; high-$35; last...
...literature, an art, and linguistic science. Then, from a somewhat different point of view, "Our Lost Leaders" by Professor I. A. Richards ("The Saturday Review of Literature," April 1, 1933). There is also an article by Professor Hillyer, in a recent "Forum," and one, not specifically literary, by Ezra Pound in the November "Harkness Hoot." Peter A. Pertzoff...
...whose interest is primarily in Biology or English, concentrating in Mathematics because Math A was his easiest course during his Freshman year. When the problem of the "uninterested tutee" is one of the chief obstacles to the success of the tutorial system, it is pennywise and pound-foolish to lavish large sums on tutorial work in the last three years while grudging the comparatively small amount necessary to ensure the success of that work by guiding Freshmen to a proper choice of concentration field...
...pound class: J. E. Dougherty (N) defeated Howland B. Stoddard '36, by a fall. Time...