Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidently the stock market expected President Coolidge's reelection, and more or less "discounted" it last August. But it apparently failed to anticipate the landslide which promised to strengthen his hold on Congress, or the smashing defeat dealt the radicals. Including "odd lots" (transactions for less than 100 shares), considerably over 2,000,000 shares of stock a day were sold on the New York Stock Exchange for several days in succession, in the heaviest trading seen in several years...
...days, the editorials dealt with matters of no great importance and were often only exercises in style. Harvard has long needed a periodical which should be a forum for open discussion. The CRIMSON, being a newspaper primarily, does not have the space for this. Clearly, then, the Advocate becomes the logical medium. It seems now to be fulfilling this function. The editorials in the November Advocate deal with vital problems and are not mere literary essays. Harvard is a great University and, like all great institutions, is subject to criticism. It is well that this criticism should come from within...
...Injuries dealt the Harvard squad a series of sever blows on Saturday. Robb broke his leg and will be out for the rest of the season, it is rumored that both Gehrke and Daley were badly hurt, but definite information regarding them will not be given out until Wednesday. Cheek did not play against Princeton, but his condition is causing the doctors considerable worry. Hammond and Adie were injured in the conflict, but will probably be all right by the end of the week...
...then dealt with "real fighting ground"-the five border states-and conceded their 47 votes to Davis. These are: Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri, Oklahoma...
...smashing judicial blow has been dealt by the U. S. Supreme Court at the so-called "third degree." The substance of Mr. Justice Brandeis' opinion -given when a new trial was ordered in the appeal from a death sentence of a youthful Chinese, Liang Sung Wau, who confessed to having killed, on Jan. 21, 1919, one Dr. Ben Sen Wu and two other members of the Chinese Educational Mission-is that no court should admit as competent evidence a confession obtained by "third degree" methods. In the case at bar, the defendant admitted his guilt after eleven almost sleepless...