Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard has been handicapped by the absence from its lineup of O'Connell, who was injured in Monday's game with Lowell Textile Institute. He is to play in the contest tonight, and with this fact reinforcing their determination, the Harvard men are set on gaining a victory in order to redeem themselves for defeats suffered during the last week at the hands of Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Agricultural College...
...been holding down the first string center post until he broke his wrist in the New Year's eve Toronto clash, will most probably resume his old berth, while E. T. Putnam '30, who shoots from the port side, may well be shifted from center to wing in order to fill the place left vacant owing to Tudor's injury...
...search for character. The roster of Davidson subjects includes Anatole France, Feodor Chaliapin, Charles Gates Dawes, John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order to enter the hall where the intricate, fascinating lineaments of statesmen were gathered in clusters. He rose in his seat to peer at Clemenceau. There were cries: "Sit down! Sit down!" Heads turned, international business ceased. Jo Davidson sat down...
Consider, for example, Montgomery Ward, mail-order house. During 1927, Montgomery Ward earned $10.25 per share, should therefore have opened 1928 (according to the "15X" system) at about 154. As a matter of fact, Montgomery Ward sold on Jan. 19, 1928, at $117, a figure considerably below 15X. But this figure was also Montgomery Ward's low for the year...
...equally strong, if less sensational, bull stock was Sears Roebuck, mail-order house larger even than Montgomery Ward. In 1927 Sears Roebuck earned $5.95 per share. It sold on Jan. 16, 1928 at 82⅛, or approximately 14 times earnings. The 1928 earnings were $6.28 per share, but on Nov. 14 Sears Roebuck sold at 197½ (1928 high) ; again almost exactly 31 times 1928 earnings...