Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Holland Wilmer, 66, great Johns Hopkins eye specialist and teacher, has cured many a desperate eye affliction. Grateful patients led by Mrs. Henry Breckinridge four years ago gave the university more than $4,000,000 to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute in his honor and under his direction. This week the building was dedicated, unique in that it is the first of its kind to be associated with both a medical school and a general hospital...
With nice diplomatic mummery the game was played last week of pretending that British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was sending out from London invitations to the great naval powers. He received the Quaker-Scotch text from Washington, dutifully had four fair copies made, despatched them to Washington, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. A further bit of mummery was to delay publication of the U. S. State Department's "acceptance" until a few hours after Scot MacDonald left Washington (see above...
...crash of Hatry shares has been estimated to involve a $30,000,000 loss. Members of the Committee were said to have discovered that Hatry had obtained a loan of over $1,000,000 by depositing as collateral fictitious bearer script certificates of City of Wakefield 4½% stock. Four Hatry group companies are now going through liquidation: General Securities Ltd., of which the Marquis of Winchester is chairman; the Austin Friars Trust, Ltd., Dundee Trust, and Oak Investment Corp., Ltd. Also under strictest Stock Exchange Committee investigation were Associated Automatic Machines Corp.; Drapery Trust; Retail Trade Corp.; Photomaton Parent...
...hopped higher on camp stools. When they could neither hop high enough or howl loud enough to make a buyer or seller on the other side of the ring understand, they bent low and plunged for the round brass railing, elbowing each others stomachs, yelling "Seven-Jan-Santos!" or "Four-Dec-Rio!" Arms waved and fingers waggled. It was stark, raving business bedlam-the biggest, blackest, wildest day in years on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange...
...southern hemisphere's spring sun was warming Antarctica to almost zero temperature last week. Bands of spectral light bunted the grey ice plateaux with sham festivity. The fringe of sea ice along the continent's frigid hem was softening. Soon four parties of explorers could be poking about the continent...