Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Edwards Lagerquist is a man, not a book. Co- operating with George A. Rogers & Co. Inc., he formed a firm which took for its province all defaulted bonds, now estimated to total $3,000,000,000. Defaulted Securities Co. Inc. will attempt to place a salvage value on sour issues (presumably employing Mr. Lagerquist's famed methods of investment analysis), and then create a market for them. It expects to be of special value to small banks which have found their defaulted bonds altogether unsalable. A onetime professor of finance at Northwestern University, Analyst Lagerquist was an investment...
...When the converging marchers reached the District of Columbia line. Superintendent Brown's men appeared as a reception committee. "We'll hang Herbert Hoover to a sour apple tree!" cried the Reds. The business-like police conducted them to a new street, not yet opened to traffic, between a high bank and a railroad yard. There, inside a police cordon, the marchers were told to make themselves at home in their trucks. There was a food shortage. It was cold. The marchers jeered the police, waved their Red banners. Across the city they could see their objective...
...nation's No. 2 job. None ever ruled over the Senate with more imposing dignity. Yet Mr. Curtis, once a jockey, becomes wholly human at horse races. If he lacks the humorous informality that made Tom Marshall a national favorite, he is not afflicted with the sour silence by which Calvin Coolidge stayed for two years in obscurity...
...minutes after the food enters, the stomach secretes hydrochloric acid and pepsin which digest the food into a sour semifluid called chyme. The stomach churns this chyme, pumps it through a valve called the pylorus (gatekeeper) into the duodenum...
...duodenum, eleven inches long, is the beginning of the long small intestine. Here enter juices from the gall-bladder and pancreas. Those juices with the help of the duodenum's own alkaline secretions (mainly sodium bicarbonate), reduce the sour chyme's acidity. While this chemistry is going on, the duodenum pumps the mix forward into the next section of the intestine, the 8 ft. jejunum. During passage through the jejunum the alkalinization of the chyme ordinarily completes itself. The chyme becomes chyle, a creamy, nourishing substance which, while welling through more yardage of intestine, passes into the blood...