Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last winter when business and stockmarket were soaring the balance of expert opinion held that stocks would suffer a spring slump, then recover to soar through the fall. Sure enough, the slump started in March, and, assisted by cold water from President Roosevelt, the crack-up of the British commodity boom and the unhappy state of the nation's labor relations, reached bottom in June. For two months thereafter all was well enough, save for the extreme thinness of stock and bond trading. On Aug. 14 Dow-Jones industrial averages reached a high of 190 for the summer. Then...
...because a rise would be normal. The Iron Age warned its industry of ''revised estimates of the volume of autumn steel business." Lumber output dropped more than seasonally, with orders last week running 20% less than for the same week last year. And commodity prices were down-winter wheat from a 1937 high of $1.29 to $1.02 a bu.; corn from $1.16 to 97? a bu.; cotton from nearly 14? to just above 9? a Ib.-the peg set by the Government's new cotton loan policy...
...winter of 1849 two young brothers arrived in Paris to make their literary fortune. Polished, aristocratic, neurasthenic, comfortably off, Edmond (27) and Jules (19) were an extraordinarily close corporation. They not only lived together in nearly continuous amity until death dissolved their partnership, they collaborated in all their writing, thought alike on nearly every subject and kept a joint diary. Little of their 30-odd collaborations-plays, novels, history, criticism-has survived into the 20th Century, but their Journals may be counted on to keep their memories green. Much of that racy record is still withheld. From the material...
...three progressive schools near Philadelphia (Friend's Central, Oak Lane Country Day, Cheltenham Township High School) showed that at least some educators thought some films had some educational value. To show their adolescent charges how the world wags, the Progressive Education Association prepared for classroom screenings of Winter set, Black Legion, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, The Informer, Fury, The Devil Is a Sissy, Men in White...
ROBINSON OF ENGLAND-John Drink-water-Macmillan ($2.50). Thoroughly dull English novel, an innocuous tale of three children who spend their winter holiday discussing English history with their writer-uncle; the last Drinkwater completed before his death in March...