Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sharks and turtle are dead & stuffed, mounted realistically to show museum visitors what roving sea life is like. That exhibit is the best and key of a whole Hall of Fishes of the World, formally opened in the museum last week. Groups represent lake, river and ocean fish life, from trout to rays (flattened sharks). Each scene makes the visitor feel as if he were under water, peering inquisitively...
Reasons given by Michigan Gargoyle Business Manager Carl U. Fauster, President of the Association, were: "College Humor through its general makeup has misrepresented the colleges and created false impressions about college life. . . . College Humor is claimed to be receiving advertisements on the assumption that as a magazine it covers the college field whereas the general belief expressed is that it does not cover the field but is read mostly by factory girls, drug store cowboys and high school students...
Grace: For the first time in my life I have seen you in a decent suit of clothes...
...John Smith, U. S. citizen, decides that he may as well collect some of the easy profits available on Wall St.'s bull market. From the bank he draws his life savings of $15,000. A study of margins shows him that with this $15,000 and a friendly broker he can purchase $150,000 worth of stocks. From a study of market news he picks any five stocks which seem to be favorites of the bull operators. For example: Curtiss Aero, International Harvester, Montgomery Ward, Radio, Victor. So Speculator Smith speculates in 100 shares of each of these...
...bargain hunters" (shrewd traders who pick up stocks at low prices after a deflation) would start a buying movement that would rally the market. On the whole, the bear market was considered a local hurricane, not at all reflecting the condition of the nation's soundly prosperous industrial life...