Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pope, in an article in the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed to do it during the current crop year, for reasons above indicated, in part: (3) The speculator is a risk-bearer. Millers and grain buyers in the country "hedge" by short sales on the exchanges when they buy to grind or to ship. If the wheat the miller buys to grind goes down, and with it the price of flour, his loss is offset by a profit on the short sale, and vice versa. When "futures" at Winnipeg were forbidden recently, grain...
...motorcycle detachment will make a short practice trip this week-end, leaving Cambridge Saturday at noon and returning the following afternoon. Tentage and blankets will accompany the men in automobiles. The purpose of the expedition will be to familiarize the men with map reading...
...with any feeling of weakness, nor any terror, will our young American officers go to the front. From the death of many the life of the nation may be conserved. Knowing that, they will not falter, though the time granted to them be short...
...lasting trust which is given to mortals, that those who are the crosest to them will some way be spared in the blind lot of battle. But such trust is sad and futile when we realize that though some may be granted a longer period, others will be cut short with a briefer. Many thousands make up an average. The average time of immunity is twenty-three days. For some it may be longer, for some shorter. What are a few days...
Twenty-three days is very short for those who had hoped to do great things in life...