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Word: ducked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is in fact less a theory than an empirical rule of thumb- is simple enough in itself, not so simple in application. It presumes three simultaneous movements of stock prices, which may be compared to 1) tides. 2) waves. 3) ripples. Speculators try to ride the tides, sometimes duck in & out of the big waves; only the reckless try to profit by the day-to-day ripples. To judge whether the tide is ebbing or flowing, an observer watches the height to which successive waves lap on the beach; if the tide has been coming in, and the waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tides, Waves, Ripples | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...Congressman's collar, the trapped and trammeled Washington-Hoover Airport has since 1926 been a fliers' nightmare. Landing or taking off in the big multi-motored planes that for the last decade have carried most of the U. S. air commerce, pilots have had to duck and dodge three 800-foot radio towers, a clump of tall brick factory chimneys, a snaking Potomac lagoon, a blimp hangar, the U. S. Experimental Farm and, until a month ago, a highway that bisected the airport's 4,200-foot North-South runway. Last summer airline pilots, exasperated by years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Dream Stuff | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...reparation for demonstrated injustice and the sole possible correction of what must appear on the basis of the report to be a stubbornly misguided administrative policy.. Perhaps what is closed is the Crimson's editorial mind. The editorials themselves--but why worry? They are spilt milk now. Better duck next time! Paul P. Selvin '39, William H. Glazier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...over capers of another sort. Henry Field,** grandnephew of the late Marshall Field and curator of physical anthropology at the Field Museum, had given a party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken, pregnant camel, whose nuisances were observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Capers | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...they have met their match when one ruthlessly honest governess gives them as good as she gets; but when she herself catches the Ponsonby family disease of dishonesty, all attempts at family betterment end. Only hopeful one left is the eleven-year-old daughter, who sheds sarcasm as a duck sheds water, thinks Ponsonby malice and Ponsonby messes are awfully funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: British Family Life | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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