Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offices, there is a terrific shock in the spectacle now being played in Boston. One candidate remarks "The people of Boston have elected some peculiar figures in the past but they have never elected a consummate liar": another wields witty puns on the straight and the Curley; charges break from harmless general statements and turn to reciprocal specific slanders...
...bull market on which the country has ridden in "Republican prosperity" the past eight years is a commonplace. The break of the past week has been a debacle. Whether the prosperity is to continue, or is to turn into a period of relative depression is hardly to be foretold, but the greatest stock crisis in history can hardly be designated as a technical readjustment. Whether the decline in what admittedly was an inflated market was touched off by the hammering of bear fools that finally tapped a layer of stop loss orders, whether the some what uncertain business conditions that...
...first period by tallying early, when D. B. Dorman '32 kicked the ball into the net after a pass from D. M. Frame '32, left inside forward. This count was doubled in the second stanza when Frame, taking a pass from H. H. Broadbent '32, was able to break through the defense of the Northeastern goalie for the second time...
...from their highs and fell, rumor remembered the claws of famed Bear Jesse Livermore and how he might be running through the list, searching for weak spots to tear at. But last week Bear Livermore publicly scoffed the idea that "the little trading" he does was responsible for the break. Another ogre has been the report of a new bear in Boston who "sells the board" in lots of from 50,000 to 100,000 shares. To conservative Boston bankers the new bear is not familiar. To traders and speculators he is known as William H. ("Bill") Danforth, believed...
While at Harvard the House Plan will directly break up the college into smaller units, each one a representative of at least the three upper classes, at Yale it is the individual class that is to be divided into houses. Past experience in New Haven has demonstrated the advantages of building the class as a strong and active body. A closely knit class at graduation possesses attractions not to be minimized and it seems likely that some of these advantages will be increased by the Yale House Plan...