Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find yourself in the midst of some national hysteria, remember the tulip craze that swept Holland three centuries ago, an orgy of panicked financial speculation in which land and houses and gold were all traded for . . . tulips. At the mania's peak, a single Semper Augustus tulip could fetch 20 town houses...
...Someone fetch me my smelling salts! The Crimson has bumbled yet again, this time making little 'ole me crimson both in rage and embarrassment: In the May 19th issue, Mr. Stephen Frank wrote a story whose eye-catching headline proclaimed: "HDS Food Safety is Questioned: Cook Died of AIDS." This tabloid-like text reeks of the spirit of the illustrious Mr. Hearst who, as we all know, had a particular penchant for yellow--journalism, that...
Even without higher interest rates, Wall Street bears argue, the market is perilously overvalued. On average, stocks now fetch prices that are 23 times as high as corporate profits as measured by earnings per share; the stock of a company with profits of $3 per share would therefore sell for a whopping $69. This heady price-earnings multiple is nearly twice the average for past markets and stands even higher than the one just before the 1987 Wall Street crash...
...aged grape juice and its accompanying revelry, open the play with a lament for hometown Athena. The ongoing war with Sparta and the deaths of two, great tragedians, Aeschylus (Howard Miller) and Euripedes (Tanya Bezrah), have left the city in turmoil, Dionysius journeys to the underworld to fetch one of the late, great playwrights to save the war-torn polis...
Communication between humans and dolphins at Kewalo Basin occurs mostly through a gestural language that borrows some words from American Sign Language. The trainers make the gestures with big, enthusiastic arm movements, asking Phoenix or Akeakamai to follow such commands as "person left Frisbee fetch," which means "bring the Frisbee on the left to the person in the pool," or "surfboard person fetch," in which Akeakamai gently pushes a human volunteer over to the surfboard...