Word: clung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fearing that a quick,, highpoint summary for advertising purposes would leave them wide open to sue-or-settle shysters, bankers clung to the "tombstone" (matter-of-record) announcement. Meantime they asked SEC for better definitions. Last week for the first, time since the Securities Act became effective, an advertisement for a new issue appeared in the oldtime form of a one-page prospectus. The firm that plunged with an offering of $45,000,000 Illinois Bell Telephone bonds was Morgan Stanley & Co., underwriting offshoot of the House of Morgan. Meticulously the Morgan advertisement referred readers to the offering prospectus...
...drills every night, demanded that the smuggled goods be returned to the Japanese smugglers and that all Swatow duties on such goods be hereafter canceled. Chiang Goes West. With frightened local authorities at Hankow and Swatow obliged to accede to Japan's demands, the National Government at Nanking clung like patriotic limpets to the position they have dexterously maintained for several years between the barbs of China's excruciating dilemma. They might have bankrupt themselves and squandered Chinese blood in suicidal armed resistance to Japan. Or they might have made themselves what the Japanese Government would call...
...intense interest that has clung to Dick Harlow's opening weeks with the Crimson gridders has prevented much notice being taken of that other part of Harvard's football New Deal, the Freshman squad, which, after four days of practice has now begun to take definite shape...
...Havens, in charge of the location unit, described how a cameraman named Glenn Strong drowned in the confusion that followed: "Strong went back to retrieve his camera which was on a superstructure. The superstructure collapsed, carrying him into the water with two others. His companions swam to safety. Strong clung to some timber for a time. But in the excitement, no one saw him go down...
...where lay his crippled 70-year-old mother, four women servants and his four children, and suddenly the core of the house was a torrent of fire. Daughter Alice and her grandmother were roasted in their beds. Two maids were scorched off fourth floor window sills to which they clung, fell to their death. Mary, 13, with the fire on her back, jumped out a second story window and mortally hurt herself. Ellen Elaine, 6, jumped and survived with bad burns. Plucky little John opened his door and saw a hallful of flames...