Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure there are psychoanalyst's couches in the offices, and one room has a one-way observation screen built on the wall, but other psychological gear is conspicuously lacking. "Mein Kampf" and a life of Daunier flank the psychology texts in the bookcase; there are Japanese prints and Winslow Homer watercolors on the walls as well as pictures of Freud. The Clinic even has a kitchen, and serves its own 40-cent lunch for the staff...
...object of penny-pitching is, like in most competitive contests, to win. This is done by prepelling a penny through the air and/or along the pavement in such a manner that the coin comes to rest closer to a wall (at which the competitors are presumably aiming) than the coppers thrown by the other contestants...
...terrace, just inside the Class of 1880 Gate, will be protected from the street by a high wall and can be viewed from the windows of Lamont...
...total volume of trading. In this ratio there were two previous peaks-in 1938 and 1948-as high as last week's. The 1938 bearish peak came just before the market shot up 52 points; the 1948 peak came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co. to observe last week that the new bearish peak merely means that "Johnny Come Lately is on the bear side [and] it has not paid big dividends to follow him in the past...
When members of the potent Du Pont family began buying into Butler Bros, two years ago, many a Wall Streeter thought "smart money" had moved in, and jumped aboard. They liked it even better when the smart money brought in a smart new president, handsome, hustling G. Robert Herberger (TIME, Aug.11, 1947), a onetime clerk in St. Cloud, Minn. (pop. 25,000) who had made a big name in retailing...