Word: flowingly
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...method of national finance cannot go on. If the Treasury tried to push its borrowings too far, without retrenchments, the world at large might become apprehensive of its financial condition. There would arise the spectre of default, even though remote. Foreign investors would dump their dollar securities. Gold would flow out of the country. Even to its own citizens the Government would be financially suspect. This would become evident in a fall in the market value of all Government bonds. Other bonds, already at low prices, would fall even further. Then would come the wholesale bank failures and general panic...
...When R. C. C.'s pool was authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission, it was estimated that $100,000,000 would flow into it from increased freight rates. Traffic declines halved the estimate...
...more convincing would it have been to explain simply that once men had seen these pictures they could only with great difficulty be induced to fight, that in consequence the possibility of war would be shoved ever more into the background, and, incidentally, that tax payers money would flow else-where than into the iron coffers of the War Department...
They accused Miss Marlowe (as she later learned) of stopping the flow of water through a nearby hose. When Miss Marlowe made no reply to their jabber they pitched into her with their fists, also whanged across her face and body with sticks. A third Japanese, who spoke English, soon appeared...
...Both flow'r and flaming star...