Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bankers, Lee, Higginson & Co., the Kreuger companies floated about $200,000,000 worth of securities in the past few years. These issues include an issue of participating Kreuger & Toll debentures which are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. For some months the Kreuger securities have been weak and on his last visit Ivar Kreuger spent much time consulting with market manipulators. Last week the Kreuger & Toll shares were especially weak, dropping from $7? to $5 on tremendous volume. On the day preceding his suicide it was the most active stock on the New York Stock Exchange. This was also...
...three drops of medicine in a glass of water, admirers who saw him in his last picture will be momentarily afraid lest he turn into Mr. Hyde. Luckily nothing of the sort occurs. He is a rich villain named Arthur Drake and he is taking strong medicine for a weak heart. The heart is weaker than the medicine is strong, so presently Arthur Drake topples over dead. His disinherited twin brother (also Fredric March in double exposure), who happens to be present, sees the possibilities of this situation. He quickly exchanges clothes with the corpse...
...yacht had been Home for four years, had the U. S. Consul aboard to dine with him. After the consul had gone ashore "Old Man" Scripps felt suddenly, terribly, weary. "Too many cigars this evening, I guess," he mumbled. He sank into unconsciousness and in a few minutes his weak old heart ceased to beat...
Evolution in Harvard tactics this season may be in some degree compared to the style of attack employed by the Bruins, Boston' professional team. In its first two games against weak opponents, Harvard played consistently offensive hockey, sending the two wings up to the opposing goal at full speed while the center came down the middle and took a long shot which they were supposed to net before the goalie could clear. This has been the attacking plan of the professionals. In the McGill game, however, the Canadians poke-checking often caught the puck at mid-ice, leaving...
...Purely a Japanese setup, this new state with its "government" of heavily bribed Chinese Generals still proposed last week to set up its capital at Changchun; and weak-eyed Mr. Henry Pu Yi (ex-Emperor of China) was still to be "Head of the Great Union." But nobody knew (after three weeks of Japanese indecision) whether it would be a Republic or a Monarchy...