Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significance of the gold standard or indeed of any device to secure stable foreign exchange rates is that if forces the countries participating in the arrangement to keep in step industrially. Should one country of the group attempt to pursue an independent monetary expansion policy its imports would tend to increase relatively to its experts and an outflow of gold would result. If the country had a great amount of gold and if it were prepared and able to prevent the outflow from exercising a contractive effect on the volume of means of payment it is possible that the other...
...walk over an electrified metallic floor, thus making an electrical transcription of their gait. The record tells whether a person limps, walks unevenly or has other faults of locomotion, reveals fake claims of injury after accidents. It has proved that very high heels give the wearer unstable posture and tend to make her walk on the ball and toes of the foot. The recording device, which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph, indicates how an infantile paralysis cripple improves or fails to improve under treatment...
...profonde émotion que je vois autour de moi cette auguste assemblée qui parait si vaste mais qui représente une conception infiniment plus vaste-d'espoir et les voeux du monde entier. . . . Messieurs les délégués, je vous tend la main et de tout man coeur j'espère que vos efforts aboutiront à un heureux résultat yu'attendent avec impatience les peuples du monde...
...exchange their Federal charters for State charters to escape from the Reserve. Such a withdrawal on a large scale might well wreck the whole Federal Reserve System and end an era in central bank history. On the other hand friends of the deposit guarantee loudly claimed that it would tend to drive all nonmember State banks into the Federal Reserve and create one national system, as no bank could do business outside the Government's magic circle of deposit insurance...
...week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought out of his winnings. The difference in their styles made the fight interesting, puzzled Chocolate for the first two rounds. Then he found a way to tie up Watson's arms while keeping his own right hand free to pound his opponent...