Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ullman, an in-and-outer last year, will patrol the keystone sector, and should prove dangerous to opposing twirlers. Sullivan, a Sophomore whom probation has prevented from displaying his wares hitherto, will fill the short-stop position today, and if he performs capably, the infield leak caused by Howard's injury last spring, may definitely be plugged. Coach Mitchell is not losing any sleep over the third base problem, and Zarakov, last year's spectacular performer, will again hold down the hot corner...
...Senators out of a Senate numbering 311. These men had at last been roused to a notable pitch of alarm by the now almost hackneyed "national emergency." They assured M. Briand that they would stand behind him should he attempt "to enforce action from the Deputies." They let it leak out that, before putting up with a great deal more nonsense from the Deputies, they would cause the Chamber to be dissolved and order new elections held or even place the government in the hands of a dictature...
...Formerly he might have been seen in the daytime conferring with the mistress of the White House concerning a leak in the roof. That night, in gold trappings and with soldierly bearing, he would be announcing the guests to the President and the First Lady...
Three previous times in the history of the Stock Exchange there had been "3,000,000-share days." The first was the record "bull day" for all time on April 30, 1901; the second, the "Northern Pacific corner" day on May 9, 1901; and the third the "peace leak" day in December, 1916. Of these the second held the record at 3,336,695 shares. Nov. 10, 1925, however, surpassed this 24-year record by seeing 3,448,747 shares sold in the Exchange open market. According to some financial scribes, this was the worst break in the market...
...Armistice Day Speech, delivered by Premier Mussolini before details of the plot were allowed to leak out, was in part as follows: "Italy's victory over the Central Empires gave us our present sacred inviolable boundaries. Woe unto anyone who would attempt to violate them!....I believe we are confronted with a long period of peace . . . not with the possibility of peace for centuries. . . . The Italian people must not rest on their laurels . . . must be taught how sublime it is to sacrifice one's self for one's country...