Word: tension
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Glass's point was that such use of Federal Reserve funds is not only dangerous but outside the law's intention. The danger is patent: when more and more money is speculated, tension increases, crashes are thought to impend-and there is nothing that is, but thinking helps it to be so. The impropriety is less patent: the Federal Reserve law does not prohibit rediscounting of Federal securities for speculative purposes...
...effect was most patent of all: with some $5,000,000,000 out bolstering stock market prices and with tension increasing, and with the Federal Reserve rate jacked up to 4½% all over the country to try and decelerate this movement-the money market of the U. S. was momentarily "high" and Secretary Mellon was obliged to offer, tax-exemption and all, the highest rate*he has paid in four years on short-term borrowings. Money men noted, also, that he made no specific reference to the terms that will be offered for financing the remaining...
...such a distraction. At one extreme, of course, are those phlegmatic, cool and collected people who are unaffected by such noises; but they are in the distinct minority. At the other extreme are those who are very greatly affected, particularly when they are keyed up to a high nervous tension for taking examinations that mean everything to them. It seems that this new test places a premium upon temperament rather than mental and legal ability...
...swollen and blistered feet it was found that the nails of his big toes had been torn loose from the cuticle. The soles of his feet were bleeding horribly. On the rubbing table his thigh and calf muscles contracted and knotted like wires that have been sustaining a tension and suddenly cut. It seemed as if he would never get back his breath. When he did he said, "What I want to do is get to Amsterdam and win the Olympic Marathon...
...informal enough so that the players are free from a heavy weight of duty and responsibility, and if the daily sessions can be regarded as fun rather than drudgery, then spring football can serve as legitimate a purpose as fall crew or fall track. It may well relieve the tension of the hectic fall preparation; and allow many players who would otherwise be lost in the rush to acquire a foundation which will greatly enhance the value of succeeding seasons whether he spend them on the University, the second, or the class teams...