Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of Harvard's Class of 1962--out of the 4200 who applied and the 1487 admitted--discovered that Harvard College was too stable a place to be changed over-night by a crash program "to catch up with the Russians." At a time when radical changes hit all of American secondary education and many other colleges, '62 experienced no direct effects of the post-Sputnik era. The Faculty in the last four years continually attempted to straighten out the honors-non-honors program and wondered about the place of specialization in science courses for non-scientists, but these debates...
...Titanic crash brought the only other major change to Harvard that year, with the bequest of the Widener collection which included first editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Johnson, Goldsmith, Gray, Keats, and Shelley. There were also volumes of the modern authors: Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Stevenson, which in many instances were personally associated with their authors. Some copies contained presentation inscriptions; others, manuscript corrections and annotations...
...went. The trouble was that it did not go far enough. Something was missing, and last week the nation's press finally discovered what that something was. Suddenly, the headlines began to howl: in the Dallas News (MARKET TUMBLES IN ITS WORST DAY SINCE '29 CRASH), in the Providence, R.I., Journal (NEW YORK STOCK MARKET COLLAPSES), in the San Francisco Chronicle (STOCKS PLUNGE...
...between times, Navarro turns dials on imaginary television sets (gunfire everywhere), short-wave sets (static and screams), moves in on an auto race at Indianapolis (skid, crash, silence-then the thin crackle of flame...
...then functioned simultaneously as an officer of Du Pont and General Motors, shocked the investment world by allowing that under favorable circumstances a stock might be worth as much as 15 times earnings. (Despite this bullish tenet, Raskob, like the President's father, Joseph Kennedy, saw the 1929 crash coming; unlike Kennedy, he did not sell short soon enough to make a killing.) Raskob's 15-times-earnings ratio became an accepted rule of thumb almost immediately, but the unfavorable circumstances of the Depression pressed the ratio down. As late as 1950 there was little to worry about...