Word: floater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard gallop by "Flash" Macdonald. In the fourth canto Macdonald scored again, this time from the 7-yard line. This fifth score was set up by Chicago having a pass hit a lineman, hence awarding the ball to Harvard. A few moments later big tackle Tom Healey intercepted a floater, then Hamity intercepted a Foley serial, but Joe Gardella, now in for Cohen, intercepted one himself and ran almost to the pay zone, where he journeyed on the ensuing play. The final touchdown was a Foley to Bob-Burnett pass, again set up by an interception, this time...
...ninth inning Harvard loaded the bases after making two outs. Bob Hoye opened the inning by lifting a long floater to Ken Brown in center field, but he was followed by Paul Doyle who reached first after Gally booted his grounder. Pitcher Tom Healey singled, but Doyle was held up at second base. Bob Gannett was called out on strikes, but Art Johns walked filling the bases. The next man up was Lupien who had singled and tripled on two previous occasions at bat, but in his final effort he poled a brisk line drive into the hands of centerfielder...
...rated a brilliant economist and success, the former because of his co-authorship of The Road to Plenty, which predicted a perpetual upward spiral of prices & profits, the latter because as the self-made head of Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp.., he was a millionaire many times over and the floater of Wall Street's two most spectacular investment trusts, Shenandoah and Blue Ridge. When they collapsed with Depression, Waddill Catchings, by then a director of 29 corporations, left Goldman, Sachs, has since been associated with Millionaire Harrison Williams whose North American Co. with $900,000.000 assets...
...rustics shall now get their innings. In Tokyo last week it was considered more than likely that wily Stooge Baba had sold the Army some such idea as that he knows all the tricks of assassinated Finance Minister Takahashi, who for generations was the Empire's amazingly successful floater of Japanese bond issues both at home and abroad...
...necks in sand is substantiated by the purely negative but clear-eyed pessimism of the two corresponding poets, Mr. MacLeish and Mr. Hatch. But one can scarcely escape the conclusion that the speeches were unfortunate. To the man with half an eye to fundamentals they were confusing; to the "floater" they will appear thorough. At a time when the greatest need in the world is for clear thinking and courageous definition of basic values and problems, these two men had nothing to offer but fog. It was apparently not without purpose that President Lowell urged last Sunday, "one must endeavor...