Word: sagged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...franc began to sag. Finance Minister Clementel reckoned that, during the past three months, 14,000,000,000 fr. (about $700,000,000) had been exported. That explained the downward trend: The French were losing faith in their own currency...
Money continues easier. Call funds, a fairly reliable barometer to the money market, here established a new low interest record below 3%, and the better class of fixed investments have risen slightly in sympathy. In the stock market, industrials continue to sag, rail way shares are climbing slowly, and certain utility stocks are booming, in the greatly restricted volume of dealings
Edith Galt Wilson. " 'She's handsome in a heavy way but her face sags.' . . . Democrats, no doubt, see her comeliness and Republicans note the sag. ... If Mrs. Wilson doesn't exactly speak the Woodrow Wilson language, she at least seems to understand it. ... Have you ever noticed how Mrs. Wilson always managed to draw into the background a little and so give the impression that the President is perceptibly taller, which, of course, is not the case. . . . She was proud to be Mrs. Woodrow Wilson but she didn't want to wear the dome...
...Sometimes I think I will destroy this University of Paper Cards, where clubs are trumps. Then again it does not seem worth while. Better to let the place sag as it does today, rotting from the top down...
York rates for marks in consequence began to sag, but the German government again supported the market, with the result that rates have been practically unchanged. This "pegging" of mark exchange rates is too artificial to continue indefinitely...