Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began jiggling up and down a fortnight ago, bobbed more violently last week. There was a definite downward trend. One "combined average" of prices estimated the general drop on the New York Stock Exchange at 2.93 points, the lowest since the 3.89 drop March 26, when many speculators were wrung. Bond prices rose in usual antithesis to stock drops. No underlying cause is yet discernible for this situation, especially since 250 leading U. S. corporations earned in aggregate $568,000,000 the first half of this year. This, according to the American Bankers Association Journal, is 21% more than...
...jewels and many gowns and a Steinway piano. She rode keen horses. The town band played at her parties and serenaded John Driscoll on his birthday; he had bought the bandsmen their silver instruments and when they played for him he treated with his best whiskey. He had wrung a great fortune out of contract labor in Missouri swamps...
...tired great gull floating on Fannie Bay off the naval aviation grounds. Mechanics swarmed to lift the craft (a big De Havilland biplane) ashore and fit her with wheels; she was to fly on, over desert and bush, to Sydney and Melbourne. And Pilot Alan Cobham, his hand wrung red with congratulations, regaled officials with the story of his 10,000-mile flight from England in 36 days. Crossing Arabia, he had flown low over the desert when "Crack!" a Bedouin sniper had shot his mechanic stone dead. At Basra, Sergeant Ward of the Royal Air Force had volunteered...
...Senators wrung his hand: "La France will mourn you long, M. Clémenceau. As her most gallant champion, have you the heart to abandon her thus in the night...
...crowded on shipboard about returning Dr. Lorenz. He looked chipper and gay. But the back-fence gossipers noted not his appearance. They wanted some slick phrase on which they could hang a story. Dr. Lorenz gave it to them: "Enjoy all vices in moderation." Fine! The phrase could be wrung into a salacious connotation. Far down in the story one could explain that the doctor meant that folk should work, play, sleep in moderation. The pressmen darted to their writing machines...