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...attacked. A raid is definitely aimed to depress a stock through sheer force or by knowledge of stock that will come on the market if the price can be shoved down a little. A legitimate short sells on values, feels that time and earnings reports will adjust the price downward. The difference is the same as between an operator and an investor...
While the "stream of physical tendency throughout the universe is on the whole downward, toward disintegration and dissipation, the organic movement, on this planet at least, is upward, and life structures on the whole becoming more complex throughout the course of organic evolution. From the viewpoint of physics, life and mind are thus singular and exceptional phenomena, not in line with the movement of the universe as a whole. . . . Perhaps we may even say that at the Present epoch there is no other globe where life is at the level manifested on earth. ... I suggest that at the present cosmic...
...dying, he found his grandson well and happy, serving as the King's secretary. The Milles Folke Filbyter grips a weary horse between his knees. The horse, swinging sideways to avoid rough going in the road, is balanced by the figure of Folke, who leans outward and downward, searching the road in another direction. There is a tragic bend and twist and movement to the piece seldom found in an equestrian statue...
...Suddenly Passang's body shot downward, followed immediately by Schaller, who in a high curve shot over him through the air into the snow-filled couloir...
Mostly but not quite entirely downward continued the earnings statements of leading U. S. businesses, which last week reported their fortunes in 1931's first half...