Word: uses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...silver would render a gold basis impossible. - (a) National bimetallism means silver monometallism. - (1) Only exceptional good fortune has prevented previous issues of silver from driving the U. S. to a silver basis. - (v) Silver replaced disappearing bank notes: Taussig, 38-39. - (w) Treasury offered baits to induce use of silver: Taussig, 20, 41. - (x) Banks received treasury notes of 1890 freely: Taussig, 59. - (y) Large surplus in '85-'86: Taussig, p. 32. - (z) Favorable balance of trade. - (2) Such exceptional good luck can not be expected to continue. - (3) Events of this last winter prove that with an unfavorable...
...Use of silver as money is most desirable. - (a) Silver and gold the only suitable money metals: Mill, bk. III, ch. 8. - (b) Gold is insufficient: see above I, (a) 1. - (c) Silver in relation to commodities a more stable standard than gold: Amer. Jour. Soc. Sci. XXXII, 27; Sen. Stewart in Cong. Record, XXV, App. 158-159 - (d) Silver and gold together a non-fluctuating standard: McCulloch, p. 21. - (e) Silver will eventually become standard money metal of the world. - (1) Exhaustion of gold mines. - (2) Increased use of gold in the arts: Suess, 100-101. - (f) Present suspicion...
...intensely than the men themselves and there would be nothing to gain by dwelling on what everybody knew only too well. The case seems to be different with the Tufts game. The trouble was not that the team did not contain the best players available; it is necessary to use inferior players at times in order to develop material, as every one knows, though we believe that this should not be done at the risk of defeat. What lost the game for Harvard was the listlessness of most of the players and their failure to appreciate the necessity of playing...
Besides the three new boats now in use, the furniture of the house has received the addition of some oak chairs of the style...
...whole the body work of the crew is good in regard both to time and form. As yet the crew has not progressed very far in the use of the slide and it is yet too early to give any estimate of the work in that direction. The amount of slide now used is 12 inches, but this will probably be lengthened as soon as the crew goes into the shell permanently. During the Easter vacation the crew will probably row twice a day regularly...