Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York markets was responsible for a rise in the Oriental silver currencies. Sterling improved fraction ally, again moving through $4.70, Undoubtedly the most interesting circumstance in the foreign exchange market was the firmness of German marks, despite the continual wholesale printing of new paper currency-last week saw 389,000,000,000 new marks issued by the Reichsbank, The latter institution is for the time being successfully " rigging" the mark exchange rates by compelling Germans to sell to it their dollar, sterling and other foreign bills in exchange for its own newly printed currency. This type of manipulation cannot...
...their graves: or, turning in the furious whirlpools among the jagged blocks, they were ground and torn to pieces into shapeless masses, which the river, nauseated with its task, vomited out upon the islands and projecting sand-bars. . . . In on place at a turn of the river I saw a great heap of horses, which had been cast up by the ice and current, in number not less than three hundred...
...enable him to read those mysteries in a cold white light, he has drawn a picture that cannot be set down in a few words. He begins these chapters with a memorable overture: . . . I came to know the calm, good and honest Mongolian people; I read their souls, saw their sufferings and hopes; I witnessed the whole horror of their oppression and fear before the face of Mystery, there where Mystery pervades all life. I watched the rivers during the severe cold break with a rumbling rear their chains of ice: saw lakes cast up on their shores the bones...
These figures look like nothing in the world, but that precisely was the artist's purpose. He wanted to make a god, not a man, a thing complete and unique in itself, not a presentation of what he saw...
Much interest is taken in England in the problems of air gliding. People on a London common saw a strange sight-an elderly gentleman playing with a toy aeroplane. He was Dr. E. H. Hankin, M. A., D. Sc., author of Animal Flight (a book dealing with the science of living flight), and he was experimenting with a model glider...