Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been several weeks since stock market daily turnovers have approached the records set by the Big Hoover Market and the Big, Bad Federal Reserve. Last week, however, the Manhattan Curb reported a day's turnover of 2,537,000 shares, third largest in Curb history and considerably exceeded only by Nov. 28, 1928 with its three million record. Artificial, however, was last week's large statistics, inasmuch as the high figure resulted chiefly from frenzied trading in one issue. Opening the day with a 35,000-share order, Arkansas Natural Gas Corp.-almost inactive for months-turned over...
...sanctioned by its outgoing as well as incoming president. The editors of the Lampoon, responsible for such an article, should be made to feel not only that it injures the character and standing of the Lampoon itself to use its columns for the publication of articles in such bad taste, but also that they jeopardize their own personal reputation and standing in the College and in the eyes of its graduates...
...advice of Budget Director Lord and Treasury Estimator McCoy, warned of a deficit next June of 94 million dollars. Though it was only on paper, it was used in the campaign as an argument by Republicans against a change in administration, by Democrats as a sign of bad stewardship. By October, President Coolidge foresaw an even break between receipts and expenditures. By December, when President Coolidge sent his budget to Congress, he had discovered a timorous little surplus of 37 millions peeping up at him. By March it had risen to 50 millions. Last week Mr. McCoy, anonymously, of course...
...being airsick: "I ate an orange but it wouldn't stay put. . . . Then I tried a tomato but it had a round trip ticket, too. I drank some water and it was the same story over again so I finally got tired and gave it up as a bad...
...MacHale '31, auburn-topped right hander, is scheduled to take the mound against the Wildcats. He has had bad luck in his two starts to date and seems to be about due to turn in a winning performance...