Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...censorship, rumor-mongering and diplomatic duplicity, an honest reporter must search every shovelful of rumor for the nugget of fact, assay each fact for the elusive motive that gives it value. On the basis of a single such fact, not necessarily important in itself, an impressive and vaguely portentous flow of dispatches can be written from the capitals of Europe, recounting rumored reactions and reactions to reactions...
...father's bank at $67.50 a month. Thence he moved to the St. Louis firm of A. G. Edwards & Sons as a statistician, in 1931 was sent to Manhattan as its Exchange member. Immediately intrigued by the machinery of the Exchange, he often stood, mouth agape, watching speculation flow around him on the floor. Soon he was an expert at all phases of the market, could quote the capitalizations of 49 out of 50 firms chosen at random. In 1935 he became a governor, unobtrusively joined the Shields group...
...notable editorial dis tinction embraces a wider scope. With unabashed possessiveness, P. I. has labeled the modern U. S. business world "the advertiser system." The essential of this system is a realization of the community of interest between capital and labor. In practical terms this would mean an unfailing flow of purchasing power to the consumer which would enable him to buy the goods of mass production. In its first issue, July 15, 1888, P. I. insisted on the "mutuality of dependence'' between capital and labor which "cannot be put to mutually beneficial use unless there...
...Giauque measured the capillary flow of liquid helium through a channel only one-ten-thousandth of one centimetre wide. He obtained such a low value for the viscosity at one degree above that he concluded there would be no fluid friction whatever at the utter cold of absolute zero...
Director Monty Banks and a heterogeneous cast of minor actors have imparted energy, humor and color to a riotous flow of incident. We're Going to be Rich, however, is made really tops by the superb assurance-acquired before innumerable real audiences in London and provincial theatres-with which Miss Fields does her specialties. High point of the picture: the Fields rendering of a Boer folk song, Vat Jon Goed en Trek, Ferreira (Pack Up and Go, Ferreira), as a request number in a Johannesburg dive...