Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock does not move straight up after he buys, he will be sold out and his loss cut. "I have no ego in the stock market," he says. "If I make a mistake I admit it immediately and get out fast." Darvas thinks his system is the height of conservatism. Says he: "If you could play roulette with the assurance that whenever you bet $100 you could get out for $98 if you lost your bet, wouldn't you call that good odds?" If he has a big profit in a stock, he puts the stop-loss order just...
DeKiewiet cleared 6 ft., 3 3/4 in. in qualifying for the trip along with freshman Marty Beckwith. In near-perfect form, deKiewiet made every height up to the record on his first attempt...
...crowded into St. Patrick's Cathedral for the installation of the city's sixth Roman Catholic archbishop. Said the new prelate, whom they had come to honor: "I have read that this see is the richest see . . . The city of New York has length and breadth and height and depth of astonishing dimensions . . . [But] my viewpoint as a Catholic bishop is the apprehension of St. Paul, who wrote to the Corinthians: 'We look not at the things that are seen but the things which are not seen...
...Brown pitcher, Dave Manson, scattered five Crimson hits and permitted only one baserunner to get as far as third. He displayed a good fast-ball and curve, but his main asset was remarkably fine control. By keeping his pitches at just about knee-height, he forced most Crimson batsmen to hit on the ground; and, in addition, he walked only...
...zoning change from Business "A" to Business "B" would raise the height limit from 60 to 100 feet in the block bounded by Mass. Ave., Holyoke, Dunster, and Mt. Auburn...