Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some Wall Streeters, last week's drop was more portentous than the actual losses. On the way down, the industrial and railroad averages had broken through their low points of Sept. 27, the last big decline before the pre-election rise. Last May, when both the industrials and rails broke through their previous high marks, followers of the famed Dow theory had proclaimed the "confirmation" of a bull market (TIME, June 14). Now that the same averages had broken through their previous bottoms, did this mean that the bull had been displaced by the bear...
...times, had not outlived its usefulness. Nowadays the market is subject to more unpredictable political and economic pressures and plain frights than it felt in the years when the theory was being worked out and "proved." For example, only a month after the theory signaled a bull market in May, the Berlin blockade sent prices skittering down again, although business got better & better...
...finds the most respectable Victorian blood far too bloody for his taste, concludes Author Turner. Dick Barton, the BBC detective to whom an estimated one in three of the British population listens nightly, is straitjacketed by all the restraints of a U.S. comic-strip hero. In his struggles, Dick may fight with nothing but his bare fists...
...glass of beer he was occasionally heard to drain in the program's early days has not been repeated. The Daily Worker has suggested that he may be a "crypto-Fascist," and his relations with girls have been limited to an occasional game of tennis. Dick Barton is, in fact, so much the repressed antitype of his Victorian forerunners that British Freudians expect him any day to "break out spectacularly, in a manner which will horrify Krafft-Ebing...
...life has been a variegated one. Under a conviction that I shall not live to give its details to the younger branches of my family, I have concluded to put upon paper a few incidents that may perhaps afford entertainment and instruction to them when I am no more. It is my wish that it may not be read out of the circle of my family, and that it may never be published...