Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Yellow Market. Cleveland hotels were taking reservations for the World Series. Denverites could talk of nothing except the Denver Bears, who had won 23 of their last 29 games. Fresh-water fishermen were experimenting with a new casting rod, a 22-inch contrivance of spring steel called a "stubcaster...
The Archbishop of Canterbury welcomed the bishops last week in words that many an Anglican will remember: "Our communion is no longer English or British or Anglo-Saxon . . . But it is still called the Anglican, the English Communion; and though the word is no longer altogether appropriate for this diverse...
Married. John Lujack, 23, Notre Dame's All-America quarterback of '46 and '47, who joins the professional Chicago Bears this fall; and Patricia Ann Schierbrock, 21, pretty brunette; in Davenport, Iowa.
"Leaving St. Louis on May 4, 1820, Dr. James, in company with Major Long and Captain Bell, traveled on horseback across the country. By the order of the Honorable Secretary of War . . . Major Long had been instructed to explore the country from the Missouri westward to the Rocky Mountains to...
For professionals, the market has another side (the short position), in which many of the biggest killings are made. Usually only professionals sell short, chiefly because the ordinary investor is vaguely suspicious of the process. Shorts (bears) sell stock which they do not own, hoping that the market will go...