Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harrisburg formally begged the negotiators to come to terms. Here and there union pickets dumped coal trucked from non-union mines, and police began to worry that prolonged abstention might turn into a bloody, old-fashioned coal strike. Nearly everywhere, company stores owned by the standpat operators continued to sell food on credit to John Lewis' abstaining miners...
...trial in London went Joseph Kelly, 30-year-old laborer, accused of taking $150 to sell Germany plans of Britain's mammoth shell factory at Euxton in Lancashire...
...function of the tutoring schools is to prepare students for Harvard's tough written examinations (which largely determine a student's grade in most courses). Housed around Harvard Square, the tutoring schools coach students in groups or individually, cram a full course into a few tense hours, sell review notes, other crutches, charge up to $4 an hour. Where once William Whiting ("The Widow") Nolen had a monopoly of this enterprise, today nine full-fledged tutoring schools flourish in Harvard Square. The Crimson charged that some tutoring schools supplied students with ready-written term papers and theses, steered...
...years ago Harvard's faculty forbade scholarship students to sell their class notes to these schools, whereupon the students took to bootlegging their notes...
...favorite Wall Street notion is that traders in odd lots (less than 100 shares of stock) are always wrong-when they buy, the market goes down; when they sell, it goes up. Last week the first comprehensive survey of odd-lot trading-made by the Brookings Institution under the direction of Dr. Charles 0. Hardy-found that odd-lotters are generally smart enough to buy on declines and sell on advances, but not smart enough to wait for a marked decline or a substantial advance. By buying and selling too soon, they miss the boat on long-term price trends...