Word: sane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above that $1 per thousand. Worst district is No. 4, comprising Colorado, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and the Missouri Valley States. For holdup insurance in this district a small-town banker will pay ten times as much as he would in the safe & sane East-$20 per thousand up to $10,000, $10 per thousand beyond that...
Slowly, slowly our blood pressure is approaching a sane and healthy mean, as deflation progresses. There is still a long way to go. But the biggest part of that way will be covered when people,--the ordinary workers and business people of our blind nation stir in their philosophy of economic complacency which the bitterest physical discomfort does not seem to shake, and realize that the prosperity, so-called, of the past decade was a mushroom growing out of a rotten stump. And only when they realize that the stump must be brought level with the earth can the lasting...
...remedied. Under the present conditions, the University has acted wisely in taking possession of this property when the occasion for getting it reasonably presented itself. The land next to Dunster will probably always remain a playground. While the purchase appears on the surface uneconomical, in reality it is sane move in the consolidation of Harvard ownership of all the land along the focal point of house locations...
...decided contrast to the claims of the government, that the pound has the same value in goods as it had in 1929. Whether or not he is correct in his estimate of conditions, retrenchment is not the ideal remedy for an economic depression that has lasted so long. Sane economy requires a policy of controlled inflation to keep the buying power of money constant. An example of this may be seen in the agricultural actions of this country where grain prices have taken a disastrous drop while mortgages have remained the same. Retrenchment in the long run leads the boarding...
...enough, he is a poet. To judge from a fragment which Creator Galsworthy quotes, Poet Desert rates every ounce of obloquy he gets: Into foul ditch each dogma leads. Cursed be superstitious creeds, In every driven mind the weeds! There's but one liquor for the sane- Drink deep! Let scepticism reign And its astringence clear the brain! To the Cherrells, who had sound ideas on income (which they pronounced "ink 'em") but thought more of Service to the State, Wilfrid was not a catch. More, a horrid rumor about him began to be bruited about the London...