Word: falling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Roger W. Babson, famed statistician, last month told the Market it was riding to a fall, and then the Market quickly rallied from the depression caused by his statement, Mr. Babson was flayed by all the financial writers in New York whose pleasure it is to reflect the views of their friends, the brokers. "A statistician who has been always wrong"-"A man for whose opinion the market has no great regard"-"A chronic bear always predicting disaster"-were typical introductory sentences to Babson-flaying opinions. Last week the Market broke and the commentators either blamed the Hatry incident...
That Grace Knight Babson, wife of financial prognosticator Roger Ward Babson, conducts a business school, Webber College, for young lady heiresses at Babson Park, Fla., is not news. That for the first time the school will operate for nine months, spending the Fall and Spring terms in Boston with classrooms in the gaudy Hotel Lenox, is news...
Near Tuckahoe, N. J., Johnny di Rocco, 13, hunting with some friends in a cedar swamp, sighted a low-flying hawk, raised his gun, fired. Over the tops of some corn stalks they saw a man topple, fall. Breathlessly they waited for a sign from the cornfield. Johnny, panic-stricken, threw down his rifle and plunged into a wood. With solemn faces the other boys went back to town. Not until midnight did they gather up enough courage to tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night...
...survivors of the Annual Fall Tennis Tournament go into the closing rounds, there have been but few notable upsets. Although several of the seeded players have been forced to default, the only one to be defeated was K. B. Daggett '30, who was put out by J. K. Peterson, 1L, in the fourth round. Another close match was that in which J. M. Barnaby '32, winner of last year's Class B tournament, defeated D. T. Field '31 in two tight sets...
Joseph Barcroft, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, professor of Physiology in Cambridge University, and this fall the Dunham lecturer at Harvard, will speak on "The Constancy of the Internal Environment" this afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Harvard Medical School Amphitheatre, Building...