Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studio had also hired an astrologer-at $1,500. *Humason alone is pessimistic. Thinking of his mercury-spoiled spectrographs, he says gloomily: "You don't know southern California." *The first thing the great eye reflected when set on edge was a row of pin-up girls on the wall of the optical shop...
Hours of jabbing at suspended rubber balls and diving at leather-backed targets around the wall may make the epee-wielders the best in several years, far surpassing last year's four out of seven varsity wins...
Saber practice on the 40-by-6 foot regulation strip is supplemented by slashing at a sword-wielding canvas dummy, while epee and foilmen glean their largest off-strip brushups by lunging at quarter-inch targets taped on the wall...
...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...
Thomas W. Phelps, a partner in Francis I. du Pont & Co. and one of Wall Street's leading exponents of the famed Dow theory, voiced the most prevalent view. Said Tom Phelps: "Many Americans, despite their dislike of Communism, lack enough faith in capitalism to risk their money on its ability to produce sustained prosperity. Many others . . . lack not faith but cash to buy stocks after paying record high taxes and living costs. [As a result] the stockmarket remains the only uninflated segment of our economy...