Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bit difficult to determine from the pattern of the market, whether the Fates are weaving diapers for a baby bull market or whether Clotho has in mind cere cloths for security holders. The "coming rally" we anticipated last week has eventuated and pauses at the 93 level (Dow, Jones), previously mentioned. The hopes and fears of security holders are now centered on a focal point from which a vivid movement may be expected. While we predict further upward movement, this conclusion is more or less empirical and we are prepared to reverse positions upon failure of the averages to cross...
...reproach among hogs to be a bit of a swine and the influence of the Corn-Hog money dispensation reflects itself very clearly in retail trade which points upward for the next several weeks. Despite a sharp decline in grain prices caused by a drop in sterling and the favorable crop reports in Canada and the Argentine, farm stocks have been very buoyant, which indicates that fodder for the farmer from the Government silo is as efficacious as high prices for his products...
This is, indeed, a most clever bit of deduction on the part of the Harvard students. But the transfers have a different story to tell. "I just changed," one of them says, "because I thought I'd enjoy going to college here more than I would have at Harvard." Short, terse, accurate. This statement should be recorded as one of the pithiest single sentences in the history of transferring...
...recently been brought to our attention that the day of Joe College has passed. For this enlightening bit of information we are indebted to no less an authority than Princeton's own Day Edgar, writing in that self-styled "man's man's," magazine, "Enquire." According to Mr. Edgar, our conversation no longer deals exclusively with "girls and gin, football and frats," as did that of our predecessors, and the American public is even being shaken in its convictions that all undergraduates are "overdressed simpletons with the manners of a rhinoceros...
Still another possible change in the lineup came to light yesterday when Jim Spring replaced Bill Lane at left tackle during a good part of the scrimmage. Spring was going very well, whereas Lane, who had improved a great deal in the previous sessions this week, was a bit off his game...