Word: stick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. It is possible that stock-market speculation has increased or will increase so far as to compel a radical revision of Federal Reserve policies and functions. Meanwhile, however, speculators were inclined to feel that the Reserve Board's big words were larger than any big stick it might produce, that it was perhaps talking chiefly for the not inconsiderable moral effect which its speech actually did have upon a nervous and inflated Exchange...
...Unbroken Stick...
...dinner jacket breezes by, stick in hand, passes the group at No. 346. Nobody notices him. He ignores them. They never will meet again...
...been quite an adventure but I think after this I shall stick to aviation. I have already brought up a large family and I found that running Panorama was like having another family on my hands. Writing people are very temperamental, I find...
Bridge was played, innumerable cigarets were smoked. One motor began spurting oil. Sergeant Roy Hooe pussyfooted along the slim runway leading to the spewing machine, did some windy tinkering. Capt. Ira Eaker, at the joy stick, wore a haggard grin. He headed back toward Los Angeles. The day was sunny, the fog had drifted away. The fourth day, the eighty-seventh hour passed. Had the five flown directly eastward the same distance from their starting point they would have been winging over Europe...