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Word: pursed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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No substantial business recovery can be logically anticipated until public confidence is restored by a definite program which aims towards a balanced budget and a stable monetary policy. In the depressions of the seventies and the nineties, much of the business stagnation could be definitely traced to the uncertainty of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONETARY SOUNDNESS | 11/13/1934 | See Source »

This is a shrewd way of saying that there are 4,000 Nudists in France (with many more in Germany where the cult started). Within the French movement there are two sects, Les Grecs and Les Purs.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Les Grecs et Les Purs | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

At a sunparty on one of the societies' discreetly enclosed lawns, Les Grecs appear in classic Greek draperies of sheerest gauze. Les Purs appear in the scantiest of Chitons (shirts), barely conforming to the French law against absolute nudity

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Les Grecs et Les Purs | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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