Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Morgenthau said he had had "an awful time with free riders." In Wall Street parlance a "free rider" is a person who buys a new issue not for investment but for the speculative possibility of immediately selling it in the open market at a profit. For free riders the Treasury's long-term bonds turned out to be a joy ride, since they promptly rose more" than 1½% above the offering price...
Buzzing bees in Sanders Theatre's brickwork threw the maintenance department into confusion, taxed the College treasury, and necessitated the demolishment of a wall yesterday...
With President Conant speaking at the Tercentenary meeting at Sanders next Friday, consternation was great at the discovery of a fullfledged nest in the southeast wall and a host of winged inmates taking their morning flyer around the rostrum. Muddled maintenance men had to rip up a section of the plaster and lathing before the conquest...
...stand for legislative inquiries. For years, in spite of perfect law enforcement against crooks, grafters, gangsters, and passion murderers, the real, big-shot law-breakers, men who did things on a large scale, have escaped not only with their lives, liberties, and reputations, but with fat fortunes, offices in Wall Street, houses with swimming-pools and hot baths on Long Island, innumerable servants, debutante daughters, jewel-laden side-kicks, clubs with arm-chairs and whiskey, in fact, all the good things in life, as well. Without such fearless, quiet, hard-working defenders of the people as Senator Black, these...
According to Coach Cowles, this shot can be pulled off by the best player only two out of five times, but Glidden can work the shot four out of five tries. The ball hits a ade wall, then the front wall, and finally the other side wall, falling dead on the corner...