Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concluded the delegates, in a final resolution that some observers called a new Magna Carta for African women: "We regret that in Africa marriage is considered a contract between two family groups rather than two people." Main calls to action: a complete end to prepuberty engagements, a change in the bride-buying custom to make the money only symbolic, suppression of polygamy, "which gravely prejudices the dignity and the rights of woman...
Last week the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 15.21 points, burst through the 500-mark for the fourth time in history. At week's end the average stood at 501.76, highest since Aug. 5, 1957, and within hailing distance of the alltime postwar high of 521.05. Even more surprising was the volume: 18,581,325 shares, heaviest week of the year. Instead of tapering off at the weekend as it often does, the buying increased steadily, left the tape minutes behind as 4,427,280 shares, double the normal volume, changed hands on the closing...
...some Wall Streeters, the rise was a little too fast for comfort; they argued that no earnings anywhere in sight can justify present stock prices. But with the end of the recession coinciding with a foreign crisis, a lot of investors apparently felt that means either " 1) a rising peacetime economy, or 2) business stimulated by war scares, both of which mean increased inflation...
...been met before more charmingly in the pages of Colette; Anthony, in his bedridden sloth, his antisocial despairs, his wounded intellectual cries, has slouched through a long line of novels ranging from Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov to Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Journey to the End of the Night...
...main brace was a runty, down-cheeked lad of 16 named Jimmy Bisset. His feet swept from under him by the surge of boiling green water, he was washed overboard. His shouts were drowned in the roar of wind and sea. But he held onto the rope's end. And the next sea washed him back aboard. As Jimmy clutched the fife rail and spat out the brine, the first mate roared: "The next time you do a thing like that, I'll log you for attempting to desert ship...