Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...microphone. Besides their manual and pedal percussion effects, the Golden Gate Quartet beat out the rhythm by precisely controlling the intake and outgo of their breaths. Their most popular songs are Samson, Noah, Job, Jonah, Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho, and a secular number-The Preacher and the Bear-with an old snapper: Now Lord-if you can't help me, for goodness sake, don't you help that bear...
...January sales totaled 8,065,090 shares on the exchange floor, 1,032,579 off the floor. Reason: the present thin market on the exchange cannot stand the weight of big offerings. Dumping 500,000 shares of Standard Oil on the market last week would have constituted a major bear raid; its private sale disturbed quotations hardly at all. Selling securities off the exchange is expensive: for handling the Harkness stock the underwriters got 50? a share and the dealers who worked with them got $1 a share (regular brokerage commission would have been 16? a share). But the sellers...
...People should bear in mind that we are today witnessing one of the greatest cataclysms that history has ever known...
...communications by rail and wire uncertain and made a war by mechanized forces almost impossible. As Italy found in Greece, it does not pay to fight Balkan troops under conditions which give an advantage to old-fashioned armies on foot. Moreover, the Danube was frozen-not heavily enough to bear mechanized forces, too heavily to tolerate pontoon bridges. And there are only three permanent bridges over the Danube. Unless the British appeared in Greece in force, there was no need for haste. But the main reason why such a push could well be postponed until springtime was that political bridges...
...decade beginning this year it remains to be seen whether Lenin was right, whether the U. S. literary liberals will bring their intelligence to bear effectively on the side of democracy. Already they had made a beginning. Waldo Frank had written one guide in his Chart For Rough Water. Mumford had written another in his simple and moving book Faith for Living, while in seven words he phrased what until then millions of his countrymen had felt obscurely: "The struggle is for the human soul...