Word: slid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Order of St. Sylvester, etc. Last November 11, the Catholic sisters of Maryknoll, Ossining, N. Y., received a cable from the sisters of their Mercy Hospital for the Insane near Shanghai reading: "Can you send money for food? Lo bankrupt." Mr. Lo, who had long supported Mercy Hospital, had slid from being one of the richest men in China into bankruptcy when Chinese looted and burned his properties, believing him to be pro-Japanese. Philanthropist Lo headed the recently organized Shanghai Civic Association, suspected of being a Japanese-inspired group which wanted to make him mayor. Another of its members...
...whom he had been living in Newark was about to be dispossessed. He was afraid he would not find him if he stayed in the hospital any longer. He felt all right, so he got up, wrapped his pajama-clad hulk in a blanket, clambered over the window sill, slid down 35 feet of water pipe to the ground...
Whereas the old heavy type of pick-up had to be moved with care so as not to run radially over the surface of the record, the new one can be slid across the surface without leaving the faintest trace of its path...
...some hope. But car-loadings dropped another 6%, making the total 18% under last year; Barren's business index went to 67% of normal; auto output stood at 58,000 units v. 85,000 last fortnight and 102,000 year ago. And the New York Times business index slid on down, having slumped more in the past three months than in the 13 months following the 1929 market smash With such figures in the headlines, mostly a week to two weeks behind hand and only a further decline in view, there was ample reason for renewed fall of stocks...
...raised a family. Nearly eight years later, when a Spanish vessel appeared, he engineered a trap to kill its crew. But in a sudden burst of homesickness for Spain he swam to the ship to identify himself. A few hours on board was enough. That night he slid over the side and struck out happily for shore...