Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days last winter. Outside it was sleety & cold; in the room the temperature was 90° during the day, 88° at night. Dr. Bazett's first symptoms were typical of spring fever-laziness, sleepiness, a logy feeling. Then his ankles and feet began to swell. At the end of the first week he was drowsy, uncomfortable, mentally confused. But at the end of ten days he felt comfortable again, because his blood-making system had gone into action and made more than two extra pints of blood to cool his internal workings. His swollen ankles subsided, his mind...
...most U. S. tycoons, this was all so much balderdash. Remarking on the railroad crisis, stagnation of new building, lack of substantial upturn in automobile production, fall in security prices, increase in unemployment and lack of a spring upturn. Colonel Ayres decided that the present lull is only the end of the first stage of a major depression. Gloomed he: "The physical volume of industrial production appears to have dropped to more than 40% below the computed normal level in March. . . . There has been only one year in all our history when production averaged more than 40% below normal...
Bradley & Murphy. Month ago desperate Robert Young went to Judge Coxe's district court in Manhattan, got a temporary stay restraining Guaranty from exercising voting rights on Chesapeake Corp. stock on the ground that before the end of the 30-day period of grace after the Feb. 1 appraisal the collateral back of one bond issue momentarily went above the 150% figure and also on the ground that Guaranty was acting in bad faith. Judge Coxe later refused a permanent injunction, so resourceful Robert Young appealed to Judge Manton of the Circuit Court of Appeals, got another temporary stay...
...interest. All hands join in deviling the succession of governesses. For awhile it looks as though 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...
...proved it by walking around the room on his hands), but usually Author Lewinsohn shows Barnato smoothing over diamond diggers Rhodes had antagonized, pacifying the Boers after the abortive Jameson raid, restoring confidence in jittery diamond buyers, until his tireless peacemaking grows wearisome. The big question mark at the end of Barnato's career-why, at the age of 44, with fortune intact and prospects excellent, he killed himself-Author Lewinsohn does not answer...