Word: tender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...features", Mr. Harding said, "concerning a Reserve Bank branch in Cuba which grow out of the intimate connection between Cuba and the United States. It is, in the first place, the only foreign country in which all transactions are carried on in dollars, and whose circulating medium and legal tender are entirely American currency. Moreover, the government of the United States exercises a quasi-guardianship over the island which makes it entirely different from any other available banking field...
...experience with the valorization of coffee is a sufficient indication of the danger of government meddling in international trade. The present hubbub over rubber is mainly a political rather than business issue. It proceeds more from a desire to "twist the lion's tail than from a tender sympathy for tire manufacturers...
...masterpiece. This makes the book cockide to begin with because who ever has been there when a woman has started a argument and then been lazy enough to leave her opponent, if of the suspender half of the family, end it. Besides Nina is just dumb enough to get tender at the end of her piece and say something about how women couldn't get along without men anyhow, at which Ring measures his distance and steps in and ends the fight with one wallop. He says in one place that his wife never reads his stuff...
...seeing and describing, to teach manual dexterity and expression by word and musical note; above all, to develop individuality rather than to compress into uniformity. It is ambitious; it does not meet the plea for greater economy. But unlike the other programs, it considers the child. In the tender years when the nature of the child is expanding, when its vivid imagination is struggling for expression, the curriculum must give it elbow-room instead of cramping and stunting it within the bounds of the three R's. And certainly, as one educator says, when the American people spend twenty...
...conscience being tender...