Word: cating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then declined to 100 and a fraction, and there it stayed. Wall Street, as usual sceptical, is now wondering how many shares the syndicate is having to buy* to keep the price at this figure so consistently. Incidentally, this factor will determine the profits of the syndi cate in the deal. The payments made for the new Dodge securities proved a considerable influence on Wall Street money rates for a time, and tended to produce cheaper money there by the rapid piling up of funds in Manhattan banks...
...book tends rather to force itself upon the reader. One is led to wonder what other qualities noble or ignoble the unassuming volumes on our shelves share with the existing lords of creation. Have books feelings, sensibilities, all those little emotional refinements which make of life so deli cate an adventure? No one wants to hurt a book's feelings. Are they sensitive? Have they their petty vanities, their secret aspirations, disappointments...
...playing field, distinctions of "in touch" and many other matters were equally divergent. At last, however, in 1875 committees from the two colleges met and agreed upon a set of "Concessionary Rules". Among other points Yale agreed to a fifteen man team and Harvard (to quote Martin L. Cate '77 in the H Book of Harvard Athletics) "gave up the right of the side making a touchdown to bring or punt the ball out to be converted into goal". The Number Six ball agreed upon was thirty inches in circumference and less pointed at the ends than the present Rugby...