Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever the reason for the "Decline in the Yale spirit" it might he just as well if the same decline would hit all of the colleges to a reasonable extent. This I suppose would sound sacrilegious to any old grad, but it would forestall the annual hullabaloo concerning overemphasis and the distortion of vales. Yale at the close of this season refrained from distorting a single value or tearing up a single goal post...
Died. Bernette Gernsback III, daughter of Hugo Gernsback, Manhattan publisher of science and radio journals; when hit by a taxicab while stooping for a lost penny; in Manhattan...
Last week, three wives of three potent stockmarketeers debated whether or not to sell their holdings of Alaska Juneau. They knew, of course, that the stock had appreciated in value just 1,000% since its purchase, had hit a high of $10 a share. But might it not go still higher? Amused, they looked at income reports, noted that 1927 deficits ranged from $3,500 to $43,000 monthly, while monthly earnings in 1928 exceeded $50,000, occasionally hit...
...their trying career; had charge of nuns for years. You were perfectly in the right. Sometimes Catholics are too ready to take offence where not the slightest offence is intended. Perhaps Catholics get that way from having stood for more than their share of unjust abuse. I know I hit the ceiling this week when I learned that every single one of my mountaineer parishioners and even myself received a copy of a nasty, ornery anti-Catholic sheet. But when I started my green wood fire with the raggy propaganda, I felt more my usual self. Just paper and postage...
...with mills in Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland (see Foreign News), contracted with Publisher Hearst on the basis of $50 a ton. Friendly, possibly merging Abitibi Power & Paper Co. made a similar deal with the Chicago Daily News. On the Manhattan stock exchange, International Paper common fell 4¼ points; Abitibi hit a new low for the year...