Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inflation means different things to different people-breadlines, bushel-basket currency, ballooning credit or simply whacking good times. Whatever the discord in definition, there is perfect harmony on one point: inflation means higher prices for all. Oddly enough, there was much more talk of inflation two or three years ago than there is today, when prices are mounting faster than at any time since the post-War "boom."' That "boom" in good measure was pure inflation brought on by War financing, and the subsequent collapse was highlighted by a terrific crash in commodity prices, just as the last depression...
...Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms Co., some 200 other big & little wigs. A waiter opened the door, and in waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand of Connecticut's onetime Senator Frederic Walcott who was presiding as toastmaster, launched into a falsetto speech acknowledging the gratitude of ducks for what the diners were doing for them. This done, he started...
During the first quarter it appeared as if it were going to be a close game, Verne Struck and Johnny Vruwink matching basket for basket, until the score stood at nine-all. Lowman then went into action to score seven points while the Tiger five was held to four. Later the Crimson's lead was stretched to eight points, but at the half it was again cut to a slim 23-21 point lead...
...Crossley, who had lapped the field in the last hour, held a point lead piled up earlier by winning the sprint that ended the race. While the crowd of 16,000 screamed themselves hoarse, Walthour & Crossley pedaled around the track once more, each balancing on his handlebars an enormous basket of yellow chrysanthemums...
...informal scrimmage with Northeastern University, at the end of last week's practice, the Varsity basketball team tallied 25 baskets to swamp their Husky opponents, who were successful in completing only three throws at the basket...