Word: remained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Europeans know this: many nations remain on the Gold Standard but only the U. S. will promptly give in exchange for its paper money gold coins. France mints no new gold; Great Britain minted none after the War (even while her pound was on the Gold Standard); Germany mints no gold marks. In France the state bank is obliged by law to give gold in exchange for paper only in the awkward form of gold bars weighing 25 Ib. each, costing $8,700. Private European banks traffic in gold coins at a premium as in Poland...
...both have had to meet keen foreign competition from Holland and France, and face abnormal mortality among our oysters owing to disease, the origin and cause of which remain obscure. It has been my experience that the slipper limpet is the worst enemy preying on my oysters and I understand that 4,000 tons of these pests have been removed from the River Colne in the past five years...
Because the cold waters make phlegmatic British oysters disinclined to spawn, thousands of yearling U. S. oysters are imported to British waters annually, planted in British beds. U. S. oysters will not procreate in British waters. Like eunuchs they fatten but remain sterile...
...Certainly not lately. And who wishes you to remain all your lives on ten shillings a week...
...that spear of righteousness JOHN SAXTON SUMNER of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Said Partner Silberman: If Mr. Sumner would bring his wife to the gallery and if she found the picture objectionable they would remove it and apologize publicly. Otherwise Susanna would remain in the window. Mr. Sumner refused the offer, turned on his heel...