Word: clotho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gambling chance for the sake of bluffing her opponents, peace might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves plain Europeans of all nationalities (except the Serbs) from a desire for war, says: "The bringers of evil were folly, arrogance, stupidity, and the gambler's mania. The fates were not Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, daughters of Zeus. They were a select company whose names stood at the foot of government decrees, in the official calendars, in the diplomatic sections of the Almanack de Gotha, in the Army Lists, the world's Press lists, the general directories, the telephone directories...
...difficult to determine from the pattern of the market, whether the Fates are weaving diapers for a baby bull market or whether Clotho has in mind cere cloths for security holders. The "coming rally" we anticipated last week has eventuated and pauses at the 93 level (Dow, Jones), previously mentioned. The hopes and fears of security holders are now centered on a focal point from which a vivid movement may be expected. While we predict further upward movement, this conclusion is more or less empirical and we are prepared to reverse positions upon failure of the averages to cross...
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