Word: spate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spate of speculation which followed its sudden notoriety in the press, the Loch Ness monster was variously identified as a school of otters, a killer whale, the wreck of a German zeppelin, a giant squid, an "abomination with a three-arched neck" and a seagoing dinosaur...
After weeks of indecisive pawing & snorting, Wall Street's bull market this week jumped over the fence. Prodded by fat earnings, generous dividends and a spate of stock splits (General Motors, Philco, Container Corp. and a rumored split by Chrysler), stocks went bouncing up in the opening session this week. The Dow-Jones industrial average reached 228.94, thus breaking through the previous bull market high of last June and climbing to the highest point since September 1930.* Railroad stocks, which had been pacing recent market advances, also rose; their Dow-Jones index was the highest since August...
...Month-Club alternate selection. A fat collection of 42 Faulkner tales written over the past quarter-century, Collected Stories will let a brand-new layer of U.S. readers judge for themselves what all the critical whooping is about. The stories are also pretty sure to bring a spate of re-estimates by the critics themselves...
...Place to Settle. Meanwhile, encouraged by vociferous royalists back home, the young count kept on with his pretending, established a newspaper and published a spate of books and essays on politics...
Above the Pulpit. As the days went by, even that hope began to fade. Local investigators seemed to be getting nowhere; the FBI was asked to send an agent from Washington to help. His arrival gave birth to a spate of rumors: the eyeballs of the dead guard were being flown to Washington because they had retained the image of the last person he saw before his death; the G-man had brought along bloodhounds which had already tracked down a suspect. In reality, the FBI man started out much less spectacularly, going over the locked church with a magnifying...