Word: soar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these extremes has freedom of thought carried the tribe of Why-nots. Understand me, my dear Usbek! Never for a moment would I infringe the privilege of youth to soar with head among the clouds. But free thinking, properly understood, demands that even youth keep its feet on the earth...
...obvious to economists and bankers that should a commercially feasible method of manufacturing gold be worked out, it would have far-reaching results. Probably a huge period of inflation would fol- low. Bonds would on paper remain still, but actually depreciate in value measured in commodities. Stocks would soar unless their dividend rates were fixed. All commodity prices would rise. Another basis for money all over the world would have to be discovered, legislated upon, adopted. America, the richest nation in the world, would find herself loaded with tons of yellow metal useful only to fill teeth or roof houses...
...past week saw no new devel- opments in the U. S. There was a continuation and even a deepening of tendencies already recognized. Wheat continued to soar in one of the most sensational recoveries on record. Farmers were cheerful. Rural bankers breathed easier, and bank failures in the West were halted. Mail-order houses, farm implement people and others who sell to farmers reported a distinct turn for the better. North and middle west- ern roads were optimistic because of increased freights, not only of grain going east but heavier farmers' purchases going west. In the Atlantic states, business...
EXPRESSING WILLIE ? Smartly-done comedy, clipping the wings of those who would soar for no particular reason...
...deluge. But what looks like a curse may yet prove a blessing. Even though the undergraduate body be forced to take to an ark, if the potion is as effective here as it has proved to be at Yale, football hopes for next year may soar higher than ever. And Mr. Gundelfinger is to be thanked on still another score. Every student who can persuade himself to read the pamphlet through may, by studying this excellent pathological case, become an embryo psychologist...