Word: dunned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was plenty of action in the smaller rings. The price of hogs went up to an alltime high of $30 a hundredweight, almost double the price of five months ago. Many another commodity edged up enough to shove Dun & Bradstreet's weekly index of wholesale food prices to a record high. Some metals rose too. Lead went up 1? to a new high of 14? a lb.; copper worth only 14 3/8? under OPA ceiling rose to 21? a Ib. Silver, which had sagged to 70? a Ib. in February, now somersaulted...
...people who sent their children there were a measure of its success: they included college presidents (Compton of M.I.T., Conant of Harvard, Carmichael of Tufts); bishops (Dun of Washington, Nash of Massachusetts); professors (Harvard Law School's Thomas Reed Powell, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead...
...caused by sunspots, although Dun's Review, in all seriousness, devoted 13 columns to a discussion of sunspots and business activity in its first postmortem issue. It was caused partly by 1) the old fact that stock prices had generally risen far out of line with actual and visible profits, and 2) the new fact that too many people expected a recession, as the bastard result of full employment, high wages and too-high prices. Never had a coming slump been given such loud and passionate advance advertising...
Last week, in the University's musty old Mandel Hall, the first Hoover lectures were delivered before a thousand-odd Chicagoans. The lecturer: liberal, ecumenical-minded Bishop Angus Dun of Washington, D.C. Said Episcopalian Dun...
Such a reunited church, prescribed Bishop Dun, must include the three main divisions of the Christian confession: 1) the Anglican, Roman and Eastern Catholics, who see the Church as "the great institution established on earth by God to bring men into right relations with Himself and with one another under Him"; 2) the "classical" Protestants, who make the Bible the center of their belief and church life; and 3) the Quakers and other groups who see the church as "the fellowship of the Spirit or the community of the perfect...