Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contents with devouring law, these future barristers have begun to learn business as well. This undertaking has resulted in the Bull and Bear Club, 53 members strong, devoted to a practical study of finances, particularly the complicated workings of the Stock Exchange...
...Bull and Bear members feel their organization fills a definite gap in the Law School curriculum. They cite the fact that even Law School courses on corporations and business are taught from the legal angle and do not provide practical business knowledge. And although many students are only studying law as a background for a business career, courses across the river at the Business School are open only to third-year...
...traditional task: shoveling manure. Ten hours on the job earned him two hours of riding. "But I never could get enough." Tompkins recalls now. "At night I'd go out in the pasture to ride. I did that for four years." At 19, Tompkins rode his first wild bull ("They're not as squirmy as horses"), and entered his first rodeo in Springfield, Mass. Then an eight-second ride at Madison Square Garden earned him $310, and Tompkins decided that the wild & woolly sport of bull riding was an easy way to make money. Within a year, Tompkins...
...legs are commonplace, Tompkins has only had one real injury: a pulled thigh ligament. The enforced month's layoff ("I knew I wouldn't be at my best") made nervous, gum-chewing Tompkins edgier than ever, kept him out of action just long enough to lose the bull-riding title...
Furthermore, stocks in the average were yielding 5% interest v. a low of 1.9% when the 1929 bull market ended. And the market was buoyed by the realization that after two decades of Government suspicion, hostility and harassment...