Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Roger W. Babson, famed statistician, last month told the Market it was riding to a fall, and then the Market quickly rallied from the depression caused by his statement, Mr. Babson was flayed by all the financial writers in New York whose pleasure it is to reflect the views of their friends, the brokers. "A statistician who has been always wrong"-"A man for whose opinion the market has no great regard"-"A chronic bear always predicting disaster"-were typical introductory sentences to Babson-flaying opinions. Last week the Market broke and the commentators either blamed the Hatry incident...
...decision recently announced by executives of the various major league baseball clubs to shorten the schedule in future years is but the most recent of the many indications that have accumulated to mark a decline in certain fields of professional sport. New York sport pages and individual columnists alike reflect the trend of the times with a tendency toward an Increasing emphasis upon amateur sports, upon tennis and golf and polo, that must be of some significance to the public at large, but of even more consequence to the collegiate world in which the best of amateur sport in certain...
Idaho, in the course of his Jewry v. Islam speech at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (see p. 26), said: "Generally, when I do not reflect, I say what I think...
Japanese Ambassador M. Katsuji Debuchi, a true diplomat striving always to comprehend and reflect U. S. life. Short, plump, all smiles, he prides himself on his easy colloquial English...
...spite of the perennial warnings of economists of the dangers of an unrestricted growth of population, particularly among the lower classes these laws probably reflect the conventional point of view of the average person. Although organized opposition to the birth-control movement is largely confined to one or two powerful groups, general ignorance or apathy are even more potent in preventing any attempts to establish free discussion of the topic...