Word: widest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to $38.25. On massed selling orders American Rolling Mill opened at $15.50 (down $4.75), closed back at $20.25. Trading volume in the first two hours was 3,890,000 shares, by day's close had reached 7,287,080, greatest since 1933. Fluctuations were the widest since 1929. At one point the ticker was 22 minutes behind, traders many minutes behind that as orders stacked up at the posts...
...last week most of the top-flight cowboys of the North American rodeo circuit circulated around Broadway movie theatres and bars, wearing at the Garden's special behest the widest hats and brightest shirts they could buy. As contestants in what is one of the most unprofitable as well as one of the riskiest of sports, rodeo cowboys average about $3,000 a year in prize money, spend most of it on traveling expenses, clothes, entry fees, hospital bills. Few, therefore, can afford to pass up the Madison Square Garden rodeo, which offers the season's biggest total...
Dean Landis announced that Harvard could not allow itself to sit back on its heels in the matter of graduate school study. "Although we offer the widest range of graduate work of any law school, we must make an effort to build it up still further." He claimed that the importance of graduate law work is not in getting degrees but in making contributions to legal knowledge...
...best sense) finished. She makes her mouth piece-heroine a character unmentioned by Homer-Cressida, daughter of the Trojan's Chief Priest of Apollo, ill-famed in literature (by Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare) as a heartless jilt. Chosen as a central character because her "legendary real" identity offers the widest freedom for creating a sensitive female observer, Laura Riding's Cressida is not jilt but "almost in her time what woman may be in ours.'' This Cressida does not leave her Trojan lover Troilus for a Greek lover, Diomedes; she chooses an unhappy life among the alien...
...seemed likely that China's Dictator would soon take a walk for the first time in ten years down Moscow's side of the street as a "Widest Democrat...