Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quartet. A deft British foursome of Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...
...Chosen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, when he began writing his Sherlock Holmes stories, because the Baker Street numbers then stopped short...
Slaughter (three out of six) and Pitcher Howie Pollet (who muffled the Dodger bats): Cards 14, Dodgers 1. In the fourth game, the Dodgers recovered their aplomb sufficiently to tie the Cards, 4-4, in a contest cut short to let both teams catch trains for the West. League leaders (by half a game): the St. Louis Cardinals...
Through recent articles in several medical journals, and in interviews last week, Dr. Soresi expounded his pet theory: that the nervous system is like an involved electrical circuit, and that pain is felt only when there is a short circuit...
People seemed to have decided that the U.S. economy was in for another shot of inflation, with the Administration committed to a program of deficit financing. Some Wall Street professionals, on the other hand, were betting against it. In July, the New York Stock Exchange's short interest (i.e., the number of shares sold short by pessimists in expectation of falling prices) hit a 16-year peak of 1,844,313 shares...