Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flares, five-year-old son of famed Gallant Fox (1930 Kentucky Derby winner), owned by U. S. Banker William Woodward: the Ascot Gold Cup, No. i race of the world's richest and most fashionable meeting of thoroughbreds; coming from behind at the two-mile mark and defeating Lord Glanely's Buckleigh by a nose after a breathless zigzag spurt in the stretch; at Ascot Heath, an hour from London. A 100-to-7 shot, Flares avenged the defeat of his full brother Omaha, who lost by a nose two years ago. Only one other U. S.-bred...
...good a time with his newspaper to be fazed by such deficits. Last week, he celebrated the anniversary of his entry into the Fourth Estate by announcing the acquisition of the foreign news service and 14 features from the New York Herald Tribune, including Walter Lippmann, Dorothy Thompson, Mark Sullivan, Book Reviewer Lewis Garnett, Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr., Sports Columnist Richards Vidmer and the impeccable Lucius Beebe, to whom Washington dress is "a little like country folks in sports clothes...
...back-&-forth oscillation through an arc of about six feet every twelve seconds. At the centre of the swing, the bob passes close to a waxed indicator table, and by means of a high voltage transformer an electric spark is passed from the bob to the wax, makes a mark showing the amount of rotation every hour-or oftener if desired for demonstration purposes. To start the pendulum going, without torque, it is held at one end of its arc by a string which is then burned through...
While Government thus edged one step further into Radio, National Association of Broadcasters' Mark Ethridge, most effective voice the broadcasters have found, cracked back at "capsule culture," which sounded to him like an effort to foist etherized Hitlerism. With this parting blast at Government-in-Radio, Temporary President Ethridge retired to devote all his time to running the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times and Station WHAS. Appointed to succeed him as mouthpiece of the industry was another Louisvillian: Neville Miller, 44, who gained national prominence as mayor of the city during the 1937 flood, has served lately as assistant...
...Theory gave a definite signal that the U. S. was in a bear market (ebb tide), had been in it since March. Thus, because it was succeeded by a wave with a lower crest and a lower trough, the March wave was proved to have been the high mark of the 1932-37 incoming tide. When September's definite signal was given, the Dow-Jones industrial average was at 165; speculators who then sold stocks have avoided a loss of more than 50 points (industrials ended last week...