Word: order
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illumination for the practice of the Harvard Band on the enclosed practice field, in preparation for the Michigan game. Laboratory work in the afternoons will prevent a great many of the members of the Band from practicing during the day, so that night practice has been resorted to in order to give the players the necessary drill before they go to Ann Arbor. However, regular practice will be held Friday afternoon...
...become convinced of the fact. Everything conflicts. . . . 'Economic war' is the current phrase for describing this state of affairs. ... I will not dwell on the pacific phraseology in which we disguise economic war, which, quite as much as armed conflicts, sheds the blood of the weak in order to increase the vital resources of the strong. The case is too plain to admit of argument...
...fast. Having broken down through 200, it was now at 190. If it should sink further, Panic with its most awful leer, might surely take command. Loudly, confidently at Post No. 2, Broker Whitney made known that he offered $205 per share for 25,000 shares of Steel-an order for $5,000,000 worth of stock at 15 points above the market. Soon tickers were flashing the news: "Steel, 205 bid.'' More and more steel was bought, until 200,000 shares had been purchased against constantly rising quotations. Other buyers bought other pivotal stocks. In an hour...
...averted a threatened crash. Thus bankers have for a long time recognized their responsibilities as panic-preventers, and when the glass house of speculation has cracked and splintered, it has most often been the strong House of Morgan that has assumed the responsibility of fame and brought order out of confusion...
...National Air Reliability Tour of 1929 at Detroit, reached their Detroit goal in a heavy rain last week. Winner of the Edsel Ford Trophy and $2,500 cash was swarthy John Henry Livingston, 31, of Aurora, III, who flew a Wright-motored Waco biplane. Runner-up planes were (in order) : Waco, Ford, Curtiss Condor, Bellanca, Bellanca, Command-Aire, Kreider-Reisner, Spartan, Ford. Although losers yammered about the method of scoring, the Tour did disclose the characteristics of the planes in quick takeoffs, slow landings, load-carrying and other factors useful to commercial aviation...