Word: markes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Figures. One answer was suggested by statistics. Mark Sullivan, G. O. P. writer, took pains to show that Herbert Hoover had needed only 275,000 more votes, properly distributed, to get the electoral votes of the eight-State fragment that he lacked of a State-unanimous election. As easily, the New York World, and Professor Frank G. Dickenson of the University of Illinois, showed that Governor Smith lacked only some 354,000 votes, properly placed-about 1% of the total votes cast-to be elected President with 268 electoral votes...
...Raskob, he hailed the man to whom Governor Smith's, political potency had obviously passed. Said he: "The tremendous vote given Franklin D. Roosevelt by the citizens of the Empire State [for Governor] attest the esteem in which he is held by the people of the State and mark for him a continuous and growing place among the leaders of thought in national affairs...
...handle. General Electric gains 83½ points, keeps them. . . . Railroads are strong, may become market leaders when coppers and oils yield. Friday's turnover: 4,999,140 shares. . . . Three days: 14,931,140. Weary brokers long for Saturday noon. At length, it comes. Montgomery Ward passes the 400 mark ... a new half-day record with 3,260,000 shares. . . . Sunday is quiet all right; the exchange is closed. . . " Monday is a record for all time; 5,917,000 shares change hands; the general trend is upward; Radio jumps 25 points...
After this touchdown Gilligan's passes began to function and were largely responsible for the next three scores. Quite as many of the overhead attempts were going awry as were finding their mark, though, and the coaches have a long way to go yet before they can boast of anything resembling an effective passing game...
Said Artist Stuart on being asked why he rarely signed his work: "I mark them all over!" Said he of the famed Washington portrait: "When I painted him he had just had a set of false teeth inserted, which accounts for the constrained expression so noticeable about the mouth and lower part of the face...