Word: breather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spending and enormous building activity have largely offset the usual [bearish] effects of low sunspot activity." Nobody thought that stock prices would go up forever. In fact, Wall Streeters were looking for a good-sized "technical" reaction-simply because the market had gone up so fast with hardly a breather. But no one thought that it had reached its peak. Just as Americans had become accustomed to;-an evergrowing economy, there was no reason why stock prices, which lagged for so many years, should not finally get in step with the growth of the economy...
...Massachusetts team is undeniably "up" for this game. The players know they are reaching out of their class athletically, and are determined to be more than a breather on the Crimson schedule. As one of them put it last week: "Harvard Stadium is the Rose Bowl...
...stock market also took a breather. The Dow-Jones industrial index closed the week at 339.96. off 1¼ points from the previous week-the first time in a month that it was down for the week. But aircraft stocks were helped along by the Air Force decision to sign contracts for $1 billion worth of new planes in the next four months-many climbed to their bull-market peaks...
...During a breather between her official duties Luz Banzon Magsaysay, pretty wife of Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay, was pictured cool and carefree in Manila...
...varsity lacrosse team meets Trinity at 2 p.m. at Hartford this afternoon, in what will probably be the Crimson's last breather contest of the season...