Word: cornerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. has made its close connections with European bankers. He, too, it was who fought with Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909) against James Jerome Hill (1838-1916) and John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) for control of Northern Pacific in 1901. That created the great "corner" in Northern Pacific, whose shares rose to $1,000 each. But Jacob Schiff and J. P. Morgan, foreseeing panic, let the "shorts" settle for $150 a share...
Judith had its premiere in Chicago last week. Through many an irritating postponement the public had waited anxiously. Mary Garden had promised an opera that would make her Salome look like puss-in-the-corner. As Judith, the Biblical girl,* Miss Garden sang magnificently. The critics however, did not share her enthusiasm for the opera or for Arthur Honegger's music. It tended to leap from vigorous stimulation into dissonance-reflecting the modernistic trend...
...some competitive merger. Or it might be that John D. Rockefeller, to whom the road owes $11,396,100 plus 71% accumulated interest, was having a little fun with a dud investment. At any rate Wheeling & Lake Erie stock popped up from 54 to 65; Exchange Governors, thinking a corner had been created, ordered members to report their dealings; and trading slowed up. Obviously little gamblers had taken fliers; certainly they had been caught short for about...
...series of long shots at the Harvard goal from just in front of his own net, and eventually caught Warner napping and netted the disk. Half a minute before the final whistle Everett sped down the left land and lifted a gentle but well-aimed shot into the corner of the cage, giving a Harvard Freshman team its first defeat since...
...prifoners the most of them are desperately wounded they will hardly live; all their foot Colors are taken and many of their harfe the most of their foot are High landers the reft of their Army are in a mighty confusion and retreated over Sterling; were left only one Corner and I think not more my paper will hold no more the Lord be praised for this: I am Sir, Your Honors G. Downing...