Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magnificent working of the Federal Reserve system and the inherently sound condition of banks have already brought about a decrease in interest rates and an assurance of abundant capital...
Pernicious sepsis spread through his system, prostrated him. Oxygen failed to revive him, as he slipped further and further away from life...
...trophy at stake. It was a contest between two basic theories of contract bridge. In recent months the "Vanderbilt convention" (TIME, Sept. 30) -a bid of one club to oblige Partner to declare strength or weakness-has been losing caste. Replacing it has emerged a new convention, a "forcing" system in which the initial bidder, wanting stronger indication of his partner's strength, bids not one club but two in any suit. After many cigarets had been smoked and much ice-water sipped from black goblets the Vanderbilt trophy was presented to the team of the New York Bridge...
...follows that the local system of stars around the Sun, and other stars clouds of our Milky Way, are comparable with the typical external galaxies, resembling especially those of the type of the Magellanic Clouds...
...solar system and planetary nebulae are closely related subdivisions in the class of Planetary Structures, which also includes ordinary stars and therefore constitutes the major portion of the visible universe...