Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Publisher J. David Stern's excitable Philadelphia Record & New York Post: "There has been a lot of war talk in the papers and we are sorry for it. ... Can't we, in the name of common sense, stop...
...Fairmount, W. Va., a certain John Albericon visited his doctor. He then went to see the district president of the United Mine Workers of America, who referred him to pickets at one of the little "wagon mines" which supply the odd-lot coal trade in northern West Virginia. The pickets let the mine supply Mr. Albericon after reading this entry on a medical prescription blank (as noted last week by Scripps-Howard Reporter Fred W. Perkins...
...families, with an accompanying study of cost factors, shows that such houses must not cost much more than $3,300. Under present conditions this usually means either 1) a two-story box with six rooms or a one-story bungalow with five; 2) a lot not over 40 ft. wide; 3) quantity building on more or less identical plan. The challenge to architects: to face this fundamental problem in design, which now in many cases goes by default to builders without benefit of architect, with frequently characterless results...
Tall, curly-haired John Mason Brown (Post) is, at 38, the youngest of the newspaper critics. Probably the ablest all-round of the lot, he combines journalistic dash ("Most Hamlets look like the original interior decorator") with analytical skill. With Anderson, he has the highest critical boiling point; brought in a plausible minority report on Abe Lincoln in Illinois. He lectures far & wide, has led Variety's boxscore for best-guessing hits and flops five times in the last nine years...
...favorite Wall Street notion is that traders in odd lots (less than 100 shares of stock) are always wrong-when they buy, the market goes down; when they sell, it goes up. Last week the first comprehensive survey of odd-lot trading-made by the Brookings Institution under the direction of Dr. Charles 0. Hardy-found that odd-lotters are generally smart enough to buy on declines and sell on advances, but not smart enough to wait for a marked decline or a substantial advance. By buying and selling too soon, they miss the boat on long-term price trends...