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Word: exact (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime mystery to Wall Street analysts has always been the exact part played by "little fellows" in market activity. To clear it up the Securities & Exchange Com-mission started last month to tabulate and release daily figures on odd-lot trading (less than loo-share lots), which makes up about one-fifth of all Stock Exchange transactions. Last week a full month of these figures provided solid data for experts in New York and Washington. Total buying orders for 2,934,843 shares with a value of $126,257.589 compared to total selling orders for 2,395.990 shares with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Downtown | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Sirs: Your statement in the May 31 issue, under "Russians to the Pole," that North Pole party member Ernest Krenkel was radio officer with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1930, geographically is completely in error, inasmuch as he at the time occupied the very northernmost human habitation, almost at exact antipodes from Little America. The erroneous press reports probably arise from misinterpretation of Krenkel's remarks that his present radio equipment is based on his (communication) experience with the Byrd Expedition in 1930. Occasional two-way radio communication with station RPX of the Russian Polar Expedition on Fridtjof Nansen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1937 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...been for some time observing the courses of the doctor necessarily, meaning (of course you know what he meant) that he was not far removed from constantly keeping up the features of the profession, and he wished you success as to your undertaking, and (if I use his exact words) he hoped that you would find a way to cooperate with him in such method as you would jointly find would be to the service of the helpless and afflicted within such province as you felt government should undertake. I deliver the message of the President and assure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nationalized Doctors? | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...piece Music Hall Symphony Orchestra plays almost prayerfully. Sometimes it lashes and groans through a hot, new delirium. The 46 young ladies in the Rockette troupe are equal to either occasion. They can move shyly and demurely in ballet tulle. They can kick and whirl giddily to shrieking brass. Exact, machine-like execution has made the Rockettes known wherever U. S. precision dancing is known and many a strict balletomane takes the organization seriously. New glory came last week to the Rockettes when Edmond Labbé, general commissioner of the Paris Exposition, picked them out to dance at the Exposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rockettes to Paris | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

John Harvard's birthday November 26--Much confusion concerning exact date at last settled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turn Back The Clock | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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