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...Reserve Bank has a vast reservoir of gold and lawful money to lend out. Each has a vaster credit. For every $100 of specie or currency in its vaults it can issue $250 worth of its own bank notes; and, besides, for every $100 deposited with it it can give almost $200 of credit. The credit of Federal Reserve Banks is as expansive as wishes, and as flexible. Men scoffed at the Federal Reserve Bank law when President Woodrow Wilson approved it in 1913. In 1914, it was thought that the Federal Reserve Banks prevented a U. S. business crisis...
...most primitive laws of Nature -that kind keep with kind-has been absolutely adhered to by all animal life; one specie of beast or bird or fowl does not mate with another ; it is only man who would tamper not only with Nature, but with that vaster, more mysterious force which superstition, tradition or conscience terms the Deity-at least according to the reasoning-and faith-of the majority of people this is true-those who believe that Man sprung from a nobler source than the jungle [sic]. It was Marie Corelli, was it not, or was it Mrs. Eddy...
...Manhattan's most famous places of carousal has won him fame in the smart set, was kept longest before the committee. He reiterated his views that prohibition could be enforced only by the erection of an entirely new judicial system on a gigantic scale, and the expenditure of vaster millions...
...speed, density, temperature and so on. They noted that the sea's heat rose more than 60° that one day. Schools of flying fish appeared, shoals of hammerhead sharks, flocks of seabirds. Then, from what took place on shore, they noted that El Nino had come in vaster volume, gone farther south then ever before in history...
Meanwhile, Yale gains what Harvard has lost. Thereby it wins a vaster prestige than all the athletic victories it ever won in its bowl or Harvard's stadium. New York Nation...