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After last fortnight's sharp drop in grain prices, traders last week hoped that prices might steady. Instead, the biggest sinking spell in a year hit the Chicago grain pits at midweek. In one day, all grain futures tumbled their legal limits. In the cash markets, corn hit its lowest price since April 1945 (at Chicago, No. 2 yellow corn dropped from $1.27 a bushel to $1.17). Oats and rye also broke through the levels of OPA days...
Yesterday's warm spell caused postponement of the sextet's scheduled game with Milton until the Academy's outdoor rink refreezes...
Stuffed with romantic dreams of knightly prowess, passionately devoted to guns, swords and murder stories, young Doyle entered Edinburgh University as a medical student in 1876. Here, he fell under the spell of the man without whom Sherlock Holmes would never have existed, Professor Joseph Bell. It was Bell's favorite trick (and later, Holmes's) to guess who and what any patient was without being told. "This man," he would declare, "is a left-handed cobbler . . . You'll obsairve, gentlemen, the worn places on the corduroy breeks where a cobbler rests his lapstone? The right-hand...
Weather and exams make the outcome uncertain. Cold temperatures have brought ice and resulting practice to the Dedham skaters. Since their rink is outdoors, a warm spell may bring poor ice conditions, and hobble the team's smooth skating...
...spectacle. When he had finished, the carnival spirit returned in the roaring, foot-stamping applause from the bleachers, in the chimes from the Epiphany Church, in the ruffles and flourishes of the Marine Band. Just before the Inaugural Parade, the image flickered hysterically and there was a spell of "operating difficulties...