Word: 17â
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Stalag 17?? Peter was 16, a vibrant, defensive manic-about-town. He tried to slow him self down with barbiturates; to little avail. His sister once found him babbling outside school to a bunch of dogs and dubbed him a spaced-out Holden Caulfield. Peter loved, he thought, a girl named Bridget, Brooke Hayward's sister. She took her own life the same year he quit the University of Omaha...
...long ago John Speculator was talking hopefully of "dollar wheat." Last week wheat was $1.15 and the new watchword was "dollar corn." Rubber, which sold as low as 3¢ per lb. in 1933, was up last week to a four-year high of 17??. Silk on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange had the busiest day in months. Cotton hit 14¢ per lb. for the first time since 1930. With few exceptions the raw "things" which the U. S. finds essential to its well-being were in high speculative favor. The number of citizens eager to swap dollars for salable goods...
...climbing for eight months) are not so questionable. The foreign trade of Brazil and a half dozen other South and Central American republics is almost wholly dependent on coffee, now selling at 9½¢ against a Depression low of 5¼¢. When rubber jumps from 10¢ per lb. to 17?? as it has in the past six months, five times five million souls throughout British Malaya and Dutch East Indies are the gainers. When cocoa rises 1½¢ per lb. from its year's low of 4¼¢, as it did last week, native growers all along Africa's west...
...institution, however, the big news was not deflated by analysis. Drew University, in addition to its 17??% of the residuary, received the ugly brick house outright and that is one of the most valuable pieces in the whole estate. The reason for the favoritism toward Drew was found last week in the ancient records of the Wendel family. Its first president, Dr. John McClintock who died in 1870, was pastor at the Wendels' church and in his biography are two letters to Old J. D. Wendel. Each of eleven Wendels (the first in 1896) had $10,000 memorials established...
...17???Forty-second birthday of Jugoslavia's Alexander...