Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Webster," the famed frog of Mark Twain's story, who could "get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see," lost to another freshly caught frog when the rival owner filled Dan'l full of quail shot "pretty near up to his chin...
Although French archaeologists have recently dug up considerable quantities of stone tools and weapons, the Bryan-Movius expedition will mark the first time that a geologist and an archaeologist have teamed up in this region in an effort to relate prehistoric remains of a western European race to a definite period in the history of the world...
...Americans," Sills once said, "have put too much emphasis on the log and not enough on Mark Hopkins. Excellent teaching in wooden halls is much better than wooden teaching in marble halls...
Just after lunch on Friday last week, Wall Streeters were seized with joy. Traders in the New York Stock Exchange cheered, jumped up & down, and thumped each other. Reason for excitement: the Dow-Jones industrial average had broken through its previous high mark of 187.66 -made in 1947-as the rail average had done 19 weeks before (TIME, April 19). Under the famed Dow theory, which many traders swear by, that meant only one thing: a bull market...
...future. In effect, the breakthrough last week simply "proved" to the theorists that a bull market had been under way since the 1947 low of 161.38, following the collapse of the big bull market in 1946. But the market had been within 3.65 points of that low mark as recently as March, thus proving that even in the theorists' bull market an investor could lose his shirt...