Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actual fact, the Russians can do nothing about Bishop Dibelius short of using naked force; he can only be legally deposed by those who elected him-his fellow churchmen. His fellows lost no time last week making their own position clear. At a meeting of all Evangelical priests of Berlin and Brandenburg province, they voted their support of their Bishop to the last syllable. Said an official announcement: "As Dr. Dibelius intends to remain head of the Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg, he is hardly likely to discharge himself, and today's meeting shows that there...
Yours Sincerely. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began writing his Sherlock Holmes stories in 1887, he picked 221B Baker Street because there was no such address; the numbers stopped short of 200. But in 1931, an eight-story office building was put up at 220-223 Baker Street by the Abbey National Building Society. Ever since, the London post office has turned over to the company an average of five letters a month addressed to Holmes at 221B, and the company has dutifully answered them...
...speculators crowded the Chicago wheat pit one morning last week, waiting for the opening gong. When it rang, they furiously began waving orders to buy. The price of wheat futures rose by the hour, jumping as much as 8¾? a bushel. Professional speculators, who had been selling wheat short while the price was edging down, took heavy losses...
Smaller Margin. Publisher James H. McGraw Jr. (McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.) also drew a bead on the Administration. He accused Harry Truman of causing the current power shortage in the Northwest by short-circuiting power projects. The result is that the area "may be set back for a long time to come...
Chase It. Henry James was always conscious of the pit. He set some of his novels directly in its depths, populated many of his short stories with jittery, conscience-prodding ghosts. The 18 stories now brought together into one volume are a notable contribution to the quake-and-quiver school of writing; they are also subtle portraits of people disturbed by their own failures and weaknesses...