Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American creditors. Tramp money will not stay put; it is a form of short term investment for foreigners, affording quick liquidation and till free, in spite of the Securities Exchange Commission, to move anywhere. When the President speaks of tramp money, or hot money, he does not fear a sudden withdrawal of foreign funds from the present rising market nor the consequent financial danger to the United States, but he does remember with no little vividness the part played by this kind of money in fostering a "boom psychology," and in addition considers its connection with the war debts...
...Eternal Road, but none equals the initial one in which Abraham, having ascended a mountain some 50 ft. high and as far to the rear of the stage's front apron, lays Isaac on a stone altar and is prevented from slaying him only by the sudden intercession of the Heavenly Host. The latter consists of rows of angels banked 60 ft. higher and seeming to reach out of sight. Coiling up and down tne heights and planes and depths of the amazing Bel Geddes stage, the legends of Jacob's loss of Rachel, Joseph's dispatch...
...whose bahia crop is the world's second largest, plantations were kept up better during cocoa's dark days, and total world shipments actually rose from 542,000 tons in 1929 to 675,000 in 1935. Yet so important is the crop of African beans that their sudden scarcity had a decisive effect on the market...
...effect is felt until the blood is more than a third saturated with air, at which point a sudden breakdown may occur any time. Forbes, in taking one of the tests, passed successfully, but afterwards fainted without the slightest premonition that he was in danger. He was revived only by quick action, and it was found that his blood had been more than half saturated with carbon monoxide...
...bicycle tinkerer to motors tycoon, was so affected by the intoxicating words in which Oxonians thanked him for giving their medical school $6,250,000 that he got to his feet and cried out he would give Oxford another $3,750,000. explaining that he did so "on the sudden impulse of the moment." Punch promptly cartooned Nuffield honking a motor horn from which gold pieces pour into the inverted mortarboards of scrambling Oxford dignitaries...