Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wall Street brokers seldom take long lunches. They are afraid something will happen while they're out. Last week, most of them were just going to lunch when the day's blow struck. A storm of selling hit the market, driving down prices. By the 3 p.m. closing, the Dow-Jones industrial average was down 1.29 points. Next day the market went down again. Through the week, it continued to drop. At week's end, the average was down 5.57 points, and some $2.5 billion in stock values had been wiped out. All the market...
...architect; together, they found just the place for it. It would be inconspicuously tucked away behind the pillars of the White House's south portico, at the second-floor level. The plans were drawn, the money ($15,000) set aside from White House maintenance funds. Then the storm broke...
...other chaotic days, on January 27, 1947 to be precise, the editorial stated bluntly that the world stood "on the threshold of another disastrous flu pandemic," adding with grim fortitude that "the storm signals are flying." And though it is galling to do so, admitted it must be that now, a year later, Harvard is healthier than ever. The editorial decried "pointing with pride at the empty beds in Stillman," but today let us point at them with pride, and commiserate only those suffering from an overdose of benzedrine...
...conclusion must be that the undergraduate takes the horrors of examinations period more in stride nowadays, and that the haggard faces around the Yard conceal nerves that are steely. Perhaps the empty Stillman beds are indicative not of the lull before a storm, but of a basic undergraduate sturdiness, which now seems to be not entirely due to the predominance of older...
...storm was ill-timed for exam harried students. Bounced, soggy posteriors and benumbed fingers found little succor in the hard seated exam halls. As one dazed undergraduate, whose name is withheld because he couldn't remember it, so succinctly summed...