Word: markely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sophomore Ed Smith and Bill Prior are the only members of the varsity basketball team listed among the top 20 Ivy League scorers, as the league race reaches the halfway mark...
...Cabinet handed down its decision on the final, watered-down draft, Weizmann was waiting outside in the corridor. Suddenly his friend, Sir Mark Sykes, burst out of the cabinet room waving the Balfour Declaration. "Dr. Weizmann," he cried, "it's a boy." "Well," reminisces Weizmann, "I did not like the boy at first. He was not the one I expected...
Since then it has survived innumerable internecine squabbles, but they have left their mark on the Worker offices. While the small city room is cluttered in traditional style with desks, typewriters, telephones and U.P. tickers, the outer office is different. Along the hall outside the city room are doors with no outside knobs; they can be opened only from the inside so no unwelcome strangers...
...President's inaugural speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end, the Dow-Jones industrial average had recovered more than half of its 19-point drop following the November election. At 181.54, the industrial average was only 8.65 points short of its pre-election high mark. Even the airline stocks, which had been in the worst doldrums of all, perked up at news of dwindling deficits; their gains outran the market as a whole...
...first seven months of the selling drive. It was far rosier than expected. Monthly sales for 37-inch sheeting, the most widely used bagging, had more than doubled-to 6,370,000 yards. Far from satisfied, the cotton men hoped to reach the 15,550,000-yard mark for 37-inch sheeting before long, and have their market...