Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...included among them a Simon pure spirit of amateurism as far as the newspaper game is concerned. This week these gentlemen decided that the Corporation's decision, reached Monday, should be withheld from a rapidly curious public until Friday, in order that the Alumni Bulletin should "get" an even break...
...annual winter unemployment problems of agrarian Argentina were made more than usually acute, last week, by two strikes. The strike among longshoremen at the port-city of Rosario caused sympathetic strikes to break out at Buenos Aires and Sante Fe where three rioting strikers were killed. Meanwhile President Marcelo de Alvear was attempting without apparent success to prevent the calling of a threatened general strike of all railway and allied workers...
...Break-Down. Wednesday, with 4,820,840 shares, marked a new high record for a day's trading. More important it marked the worst break in stock market prices of the present expansion. They had been dancing an exuberant tarantella; they suddenly clattered into a noisy breakdown. They dropped without warning 5 to 40 points. American Telephone & Telegraph stock, one of the few important ones listed, not only did not wobble, but even rose during the week. But then directors had decreed $185,000,000 of new stock at par to shareholders. General Motors held unusually firm, considering that...
Krenz has not thrown the discus below 149 feet or above 154 feet in his six meets this year. The record set by "Bud" Houser of U. S. C. in 1926 is 151 feet 3 and 3-8 inches, so that Krenz who is only a Sophomore, should break this mark before he is through with intercollegiate competition...
Students of the period will find the book a stimulating biography of the man who was the lone break in the chain of Stuart monarchy from Elizabeth to William of Orange. Those less familiar with the complex seventeenth century will enjoy contact with a singular personality...