Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which of these two shall prevail; for they are indeed one in courage, and in perseverance, and in The Will-to-Win; mighty are the skills, and crafty are their managers, even to the same degree; and where the one boasteth Page, the other hath Rickeys, even to the number...
...first string backfield of Bill Henry, Jim Noonan or Charlie Roche, John White, and Paul Shafer remained unchanged. Carl Bottenfield who has a broken bone in his right hand, worked with Charlie Walsh, Carrol Lowenstein, and Nick Athens but saw considerable action with the number one combination. Wingback Bill Hoaley did some particularly impressive running...
...bulls, all this was a sign of the market's inherent strength. But there were plenty of bears around. Not in 17 years, in fact, has Wall Street been so full of them-if the number of short sales is any index'. The New York Stock Exchange reported that, as of Sept. 15, short sales had risen 127,581 shares in a month to a total of 2,133,700, the biggest since Aug. 4, 1932, when the total stood at 2,151,840. The bears were wrong then. Only a month before, the market had hit bottom...
...most part his scheduled songs were of a concert variety. The best of these was an unaccompanied number called. "The wandering of Old Angus." It is a poem set to a simple and haunting chant by Yeats. This and songs like this are the true ballads of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Mr. Ives does not sing them in his night club repertoire...
...Russians relaxed their border controls at a number of crossing points to encourage Western Germans to participate in gigantic "World Peace Day" demonstrations throughout the Eastern Zone, but only about 500 Germans were reported to have taken advantage of the holes in the Iron Curtain to go East...