Word: break
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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October 23. Why then, did a Market which had broken on Oct. 23 demonstrate with a continued crash on Oct. 24 that the end of the Great Bull Market had really arrived? Professor Fisher may stand a discredited prophet, yet apt appeared his analogy between the break on the market and a run on a bank. The Bank was U. S. Industry. Assets of the bank were the real assets of U. S. Industry. Stocks were the paper money which the bank had issued. Now all banks, even the Federal Reserve System, issue more money in paper than they have...
...Harvard University soccer team will meet Brown today at 12 o'clock on the field behind the Business School in the last contest of its preliminary season. Today the eleven will attempt to break the string of indecisive or losing games which has dogged the team since the Northeastern victory. The team was tied by M. I. T. and the Navy, both 1 to 1, and lost to Amherst, 4 to 2, and to Pennsylvania...
...that his company (large institutional stock-buyers) was not selling, was buying (TIME, Nov. 4). Others quickly followed his lead. From Washington Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, radioed to the nation that its business was sound, that only 4% of U. S. families were affected by the break. Others were Stuart Chase and Irving Fisher, famed economists, Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific, Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Luther Blake of Standard Statistics Co., Walter P. Chrysler, Roy A. Hunt of Aluminum Co. of America, Matthew C. Brush, Walter S. Gifford of American Telephone...
...Hallowell '32 was the first to break the tape in the University race, finishing in 28 minutes, 2-5 seconds. R. P. Wesley '33 won the first year contest, returning in 17 minutes, 39 seconds. The University team scored a 19 to 52 win, while the 1933 runners were defeating their opponents by a perfect count...
Once the ball is out, both packs break up and take part in the ordinary play. The back who has received the ball passes it to another player as soon as he is in danger of being tackled and this process keeps up usually until a player is downed, when the packs immediately form again. This style of running and passing, somewhat similar to basketball, is a large part of the game. However, passing must always be to a man who is is back of the passer. If there is no one available the man may drop the ball...