Word: sound
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Gold Bill," as it was called, making the ratio 16 to 1, went to the other extreme and drove all the silver out of the country. The United States acting merely for itself, instead of joining forces with France, made it impossible to institute a sound international bimetallism...
...question of advance rests upon a better transmitter. In this respect it is in the same position that the telephone was in 30 years ago, when, with difficulty, sound could be transmitted only 30 miles...
...quantity theory of the value of money sound...
...Association have seemed to regard this election as an excellent opportunity for displaying a keen sense of humor. It should certainly be unnecessary to call attention to the fact that the Dining Association is a large business concern and that if it is to be conducted in a sound, business-like manner, the directors must be chosen for their good judgment and ability. A member should either not vote at all or he should vote for the man who seems to him best fitted for the position. To put the name of a man on a ballot merely with...
...present course of lectures. It the announcement that the subject was to be "Bimetallism Since the Discovery of America," you will be altogether discouraged when told that the present lecture goes back to the foundation of the world. But the reality is not so bad as the sound; for although there is a wealth of allusions, there is little in the elasical literature of antiquity that bears importantly upon the subject. The Hebrew Scriptures abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four hundred shekels of silver of the cave of Machpelah. Job says, "Surely there...