Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold prices, all but obscuring in the verbiage so dear to bankers this simple statement: "It can hardly doubted that, at present, lowering the of price of gold would help cope with the serious problems resulting from overabundant production." Obvious though this solution for gold overproduction may seem, the chief objection, aside from those offered by interested people like General Smuts, is that tinkering with the price of gold is tinkering with currency. The European bankers, well aware that New Deal has been known to tinker with its currency, departed from Basle last week unconvinced that Washington's denials...
There is something not quite English in the manner with which the British Government tries to stamp out the name of its former Prince and King. Few men in high office seem to remember how much service he gave the Empire as Prince of Wales, endlessly traveling to important markets to help English business and to win friends for his country. Without one public word of complaint or bitterness he gave in to the appeals of his Ministers and, abdicating, left England for three months of loneliness abroad. Only people in other countries can tell the English how much...
...personal plea are the ceaseless, subtle machinery of the Harvard Fund, the Twenty Fifth Anniversary Gift, the departments' committees, and the groups of Overseers. With so many persons working full time and so much thought being given by high officers to this problem, the unending complaints of special blocs seem unfair...
...Benzedrine at first shrinks mucous membranes, raises blood pressure, quickens the heart, sharpens the wits. These effects are powerful enough to snap a schizophrenic out of his murky mentality (TIME, Sept. 14). Small doses of the drug maintain his intelligence. Overdoses, such as uninformed college students seem to be using, bring on dangerous after effects...
...spoke Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution to predict that droughts on earth will cease with 1939's storms on the sun. Said he: "A double solar cycle of 46 years appears to be particularly important in precipitation. We seem justified in expecting a severe recurrence of droughts following the year...