Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words left his mouth, the police call box rang. The sergeant took the phone, and policemen nutraculousy began to appear from doorways all the way down Mt. Auburn Street. A squad of six collected and tramped off to quell a piot in a local all-night hamburg emporium...
Eliot's quintet fell victim to a burst of hot shooting by Dunster in the last few minutes of play, 46 to 42. Stretch Crichion of the Elephants rang up the top score of the evening with 14 points, but his one man attack wilted against Dunster's smooth team-work and the seesaw game, 22 to 22 at the half, dropped to the Funsters...
...gong rang, signaling, the start of trading in the Chicago Board of Trade. Half an hour later, the pits were a pandemonium of roaring voices and flapping arms. Selling orders had flooded the exchange. At 10:15, traders yelled "Basement!" which meant that May corn had fallen 8?, the legal limit for one day. Within the next few minutes, May oats had dropped their limit of 6?, May wheat its 10? limit. It was the first day of a break in commodity prices which stirred the market as nothing had in two whooping years. The New York Stock Exchange slumped...
Saturday morning, the groggy traders tried to sell before the gong rang. In 20 minutes, May corn fell another 8? limit. One flustered trader put a sell order in the wrong pocket of his coat. Before he found it, the price drop had cost...
...They only spend 10 or 15 cents on each one, though," the red-hatred salesgirl said, as she rang up 80 cents and slipped eight cards into an envelope for a nervous youth. "It always surprises me when they let loose on a dollar...