Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the Stock Exchange requested its members to report details on all sales and short stock, a privilege not used since the War. Although there is of course no legal wrong in selling short, few big operators would care to be exposed as "raiding the market," especially in a period when a decline might carry along U. S. prosperity. And if the "bear pool" were found to be an actuality, disclosure of its identity would enable powerful bulls to determine exactly how much pressure would be needed to destroy...
...November in rugby the undergraduate officers of the respective groups take charge of the entire work of training their men. And even after the end of their term as instructors the various captains retain an important voice in the selection of the teams. The coaching, however, during the period of intensive preparation for the Oxford contests is done by several old Blues (the equivalent of Harvard "H" men), who come up to Cambridge for a month or two each year for this purpose. It is true that they offer their time free so that they are technically of amateur standing...
...outweighs that occupied in actual competition. It is consequently in rowing that the most highly developed system of coaching exists. The best oars in the college boat club divide up the various crews among them and each carries, insofar as is possible, the same boat through the particular training period in question. On the whole the system works very well. The veteran oarsmen usually know the fundamentals of rowing, as traditionally taught in their college, pretty thoroughly and attain a large measure of success in imparting them to their charges. I should even venture to say that a fourth college...
...Watts Jr., the author of the accompanying article, is the movie editor of the New York Herald Tribune. In this capacity he has gained for himself the reputation of being one of the country's leading screen critics. His close connection with the motion picture industry through the recent period of its change from silent to sound production makes him peculiarly suited for the task of tracing the trend of the "talkies...
...quaint old days of the silent films, the screen producers were inclined to be a bit imitative. A successful underworld film meant a lengthy series of cops-and-robbers melodramas, and, one popular, mystery play would bring about a brood of sleuth narratives. Now, he proclaimed, the period of such foolishness has ended and the coming of the talking picture means the era of freshness and individuality in film making...