Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trying to make headway under present circumstances upset market custom. Resigned to heavy industry stagnation, bulls turned to consumer stocks. Last week they bid up Barren's index of retailing chain stocks to the highest level since the August 1937 bull market. Such perennial market favorites as Chrysler, U. S. Rubber and U. S. Steel were forced to share popularity with stocks which speculators seldom bother with: food stocks-Standard Brands, National Biscuit, Kroger Grocery -even such a market bush-leaguer as Safeway Stores (third in number of stores, second in sales volume among U. S. food chains). Meantime...
...Book of Miracles, a collection of lively present-day fairy tales, is the best of the bunch. The satire is sharper, better aimed; Hecht's imagination makes fewer mystic misfires, sparkles more inventively, humorously, humanely...
...Oration will be given by H. Lane Blackwell of Cambridge, Mass., and then will follow the transfer of the Senior Class colors to the Freshman class. At this juncture the class of 1914 will present a feature, and the alumni will receive the Seniors into graduate membership...
President Conant urged the members of this year's graduating class to "weight the present against the future, the claims of the individual spirit against those of society" when they are planning their lives, in his Baccalaureate sermon in Memorial Church yesterday afternoon...
Nearly 800 Seniors and their families and friends heard the President advise the class of 1939 to resist "the impact of the immediate present, the corrosive atmosphere of potential strife," and to develop their own talents and individualities...