Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest asset item. Commercial banks at the year end held no less than 60% of the total national debt. Over bulging bond portfolios, over record bond prices, the bankers were a little jittery, fearing the inevitable upward turn in interest rates which will end the great est bull bond market in U. S. history (TIME, June...
Price rises in such great world staples as wheat, cotton, rubber and copper have been as thoroughly publicized as the Roosevelt bull market. But the world is full of a number of things just as important to industrial civilization as staples. For a broad view of commodities the businessman leans on the big wholesale price indices, typical of which are those computed by Dun & Bradstreet, the Department of Labor and the Annalist, financial weekly published by the New York Times. Last week a 23-year picture of these indices looked like this...
Sunday night in a long fest of bull with friends and a discussion (invoked by the hideous fact of our common servitude under Mr. Brinton in Intellectual History) of what is progress. Which tied us up in a thousand knots such as what is civilization what is man what is science what is anything. Some of us wanted to let it go at that and make up limericks...
Such things as long bull-sessions with one's cronies should not be neglected during Reading Period. Some last all night and you can spend the next day in bed and there is all that time you managed to save. Bull-sessions don't educate you at all, either. And sometimes you can make yourself sick enough smoking cigarettes to end up at the Infirmary. The Infirmary, of course, is the creme de la creme, and the pinnacle aspiration of the man who wants to spend his Reading Period wisely. There you can get chocolate milks and orange juice...
...that one doesn't have to be bull-dozed by one's conscience into studying one single smitch during Reading Period. There are Swell Ways to get around...