Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. The outstanding development of the week was the fact that, without taking any radical measures, the Federal Reserve Board, aided by front-page publicity given to bearish conversations in Congress and in the Reserve advisory council, succeeded in scaring Wall Street into a liquidation movement. A definite obituary on the bull market might, however, be a little premature. Mysterious despatches from Washington stressed an alleged division of opinion on the Federal Reserve Board and the existence of a minority party opposed to anti-speculative measures...
...story of Clarence Saunders' disconnection with Piggly Wiggly is the story of how Piggly Wiggly went to the Stock Market and wound up in the stock yard. In November, 1922, when Mr. Saunders was Piggly Wiggly's successful president, Wall Street operators started a bear movement in Piggly Wiggly stock. Angry, Mr. Saunders hastened from his native Memphis to Manhattan. They would sell Piggly short, would they? Well, he'd show them, and he did. He ran Piggly Wiggly stock up from 40 past 120, realized some millions of paper profits. Then, unfortunately, the Stock Exchange Governors...
...same topic have frequently been featured as front page news in the newspapers. But more than an issue of the day the subject represents a phase in the development of the trend toward socialization of the state, which many people believe will, in retrospect, be regarded as the characteristic movement of our century. At any rate one of the chief planks in the 1928 Socialist platform dealt with this matter and the Republican and Democratic parties both devoted considerable attention to it at their conventions of last year. In view of the unusual complexity of the problem the Liberal Club...
...Fitzgerald discovered that an object changes its shape somewhat, according to its position or movement. Albert Einstein proved that objects change with time, that time itself is not a definite thing. It is different according to the viewpoint. Your hour is not my hour. . . . The scientists, in short, got a long way from the short man rapidly walking down a broad street. They had noted details. The short man was perhaps 5 ft. 4 in. tall; he weighed 145 Ibs.; wore unpolished black leather half-shoes, black lisle socks, a grey tweed suit, a taupe-colored felt hat pulled down...
...boundary. It is like an orange with the rind pared down to nothing and the pips taken out. Within and around that imaginary sphere which remains of the orange, intangible forces wave in every direction. Some waves bump and dampen each other's motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge and thereby strengthen each other. Electrons and protons form and attract each other. They create atoms of matter, the atoms molecules, the molecules earth, water, air. Fire (heat) is one effect of their interaction...