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Word: halfs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Events of the past few weeks in the financial world should make the annual meeting of the Harvard Economic Society this week of particular interest. Half-backed comments on the stock market situation have been uttered on every side; constructive analyses by those best qualified have been uttered on every side; constructive analyses by those best qualified have been few and far between. While the list of subjects announced does not specifically include the stock market, there will be discussion of the outlook for various key industries as well as for business in general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEADING BUSINESS THOUGHT | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

...Saturday afternoon at Annapolis. The Navy took the offensive during the greater part of the game, but the Crimson's excellent passing and general team play were the saving factor for Harvard. The only goal of the visitors was scored by H. H. Broadbent '32 in the first half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Navy Soccer Team Ties Crimson, 1 to 1 | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

Ruthless at clapping alcoholics into asylums, bootleggers into jails, is knobby-fisted General Jalander, Prefect of the half-million Finns in Usimaa Department. Pale-nosed teetotalers received last week with mixed feelings one of His Excellency's pepperiest pronouncements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Black Jalander | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...worked on other papers-the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News. For two years he had been War correspondent on the British front for the Chicago Daily News. He liked the life: he liked the excitement of beating a deadline, of turning in a good story in half the requisite amount of time; he liked meeting famed people, going queer places. Then, one day two months ago, he quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birth Of An Advertisingman | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Ambassador, Harry Frank Guggenheim went and had a long talk with his father, Daniel Guggenheim about the latter's Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics which the former has been administering. They discussed the things they had done for aeronautics, the things they wanted to do. A half-million dollars more, they decided, would take care of the final odds & ends of their cultural-industrial project. Then they could consider their self-imposed job done. Dec. 31 this year would be a good day to mark the Fund's end. So they decided, and so Harry Guggenheim announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Guggenheim Wind-up | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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