Word: retrospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preferred shares and 7,477,392 common shares of Blue Ridge Corp., investment trust sponsored by Harrison Williams and by Goldman, Sachs & Co. As the same date is more memorable as opening day for greatest market crash in history, unfortunate has been Blue Ridge's Curb career. In retrospect, indeed, the history both of Blue Ridge and of Shenandoah Corp., companion investment trust formed by the same interests, appears somewhat ironic. In August, Blue Ridge had announced a policy of exchanging its shares for shares of other corporations, had thus indirectly endorsed such quotations...
...other items relating to the same topic have frequently been featured as front page news in the newspapers. But more than an issue of the day the subject represents a phase in the development of the trend toward socialization of the state, which many people believe will, in retrospect, be regarded as the characteristic movement of our century. At any rate one of the chief planks in the 1928 Socialist platform dealt with this matter and the Republican and Democratic parties both devoted considerable attention to it at their conventions of last year. In view of the unusual complexity...
...most strenuously malcontent, must feel that the establishment of the new state was merely an exchange of alien governors. It will be a tribute to the Serbians and the progress of humanity in general towards liberalism if the-rule of the Hapsburgs, does not rise in retrospect to the dignity of that of a King...
Here is one contest where defeat carries no sting and victory produces no conceit. As a consequence the game is much the same in prospect as in retrospect. The teams go on the field and the spectators enter the stadium with enthusiasm unalloyed by the distaste of defeat which so often provides a disagreeable undercurrent of repression. All are aware that the afternoon's game holds no potential ruin of the evening's pleasure...
...ashes and bitter brew if only regarded as the means to a greater end. We need not fall back completely on the scant solace which comes with the final realization that happiness accompanied the labor itself and not the material fruits of the labor, that we must enjoy in retrospect...