Word: renderers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lords to give their views on the gold question. Mr. McKenna was in favor of resuming gold pay ments; not so Mr. Keynes. The latter, has by now developed an instinctive hatred of anything suggestive of currency and price deflation. Revision to a gold standard, he says, would merely render Britain subservient to the U. S., which has most of the world's gold sup ply. What he wants is a "managed" paper currency, stabilized in relation to a fixed internal purchasing power based on commodity values. Such a system, he. says, is more advantageous than ? and far superior...
...first all-metal airship ever planned. The fabric covering of the ordinary airship is here replaced by a thin covering of sheet duraluminum, perhaps not more than eight thousandths of an inch in thickness, and weighing scarcely more than the usual rubberized fabric. Such a metal covering would render an airship impervious to weather and constitutes a great progress in the art of airship building...
Premier Herriot countered by ordering the Prefects to remind parents that, in obeying the Catholic Archbishop, they would render themselves liable to legal prosecution by transgressing the law of 1871 which provides for fines and imprisonment for parents keeping their children away from school...
...last days of the session, the right that is granted every Senator to be heard for one hour after two thirds of the Senate had agreed to bring a measure to a vote, gave a minority of even one Senator, at times, power to defeat the measure and render impotent the Senate itself...
...sniffed now and again. Other women, or sympathetic males, resenting the sniffs, have taken up arms, started anew the age-old controversy: "Should women confine their fiddling to the home? Is Love's Old Sweet Song the most ambitious composition that any female, however talented, should attempt to render?" Such questions are, of course, absurd; nor are there many remaining critics who can establish a reputation for mordacity by frequent quotation of Ruskin's remark that it is the province of man to create and woman to praise. Nevertheless, the fact remains that while orchestras of women...