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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Is "narrow dew" used properly in English? What does it mean?

Context:

One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change of our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic. The monetary commission, lately appointed, is giving full consideration to existing conditions and to all proposed remedies, and will doubtless suggest one that will meet the requirements of business and of public interest.24

We may hope that the report will embody neither the narrow dew of those who believe that the sole purpose of the new system should be to secure a large return on banking capital or of those who would have greater expansion of currency with little regard to provisions for its immediate redemption or ultimate security. There is no subject of economic discussion so intricate and so likely to evoke differing views and dogmatic statements as this one. The commission, in studying the general influence of currency on business and of business on currency, have wisely extended their investigations in European banking and monetary methods. The information that they have derived from such experts as they have found abroad will undoubtedly be found helpful in the solution of the difficult problem they have in hand.

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Top answer

I have never heard such an expression. It's more than 100 years old. Maybe it meant something 100 years ago.

— CalifJim

  • I have never heard such an expression.
  • It's more than 100 years old.
  • Maybe it meant something 100 years ago.
  • I was unable to find anything in the dictionary that could throw some light on it.
  • From the context alone, I believe 'dew' is a synonym for 'aim', 'goal', or, especially, 'agenda'.
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I have never heard such an expression. It's more than 100 years old. Maybe it meant something 100 years ago. I was unable to find anything in the dictionary that could throw some light on it. From the context alone, I believe 'dew' is a synonym for 'aim', 'goal', or, especially, 'agenda'.

CJ
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Could it have been meant to be 'narrow view'?
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fivejedjonCould it have been meant to be 'narrow view'?
Not only could it, it did. Good catch. That's it!

You can find the typescript of March 4, 1909 at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage

The paragraph begins on page 17, and the words "narrow view" are the f
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