Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...tell of unusually small ducks, jet black parrots, red morning glories as big as saucers. Dr. Dickey called upon the Guaharibos Indians who, someone had told him, were white and mean. Instead he found them yellow and sweet-tempered. They wear no clothes, live in the Stone Age manner. Dr. Dickey had taken harmonicas with him for gifts, discovered they needed agricultural implements more. While the rest of the party went farther up the river, Mrs. Dickey, who accompanies her husband, stayed on shore with the Guaharibos. The tribe has an unusually high infant mortality rate. Mrs. Dickey said...
...bear market began.* Although the firm was of fair size, the action affected only a few stocks, did not halt last week's stock-market rally. As is customary, Senior Partner Frederick R. Bauer announced that if his firm's affairs were liquidated in an orderly manner, all creditors could be paid, a residue left for the partners. The strong market gave him a more pleasing background than other recent crashees have enjoyed...
...manner in which Mr. Grover develops book enthusiasts from literary anaemics could be adopted to advantage by other professors throughout the country. It is a painless process to cultural development which overtakes the student unaware...
...York Stock Exchange last week copper shares, long since pounded into sprawling recumbence by reduced dividends and vanishing margins of profit, suddenly whipped out of their lethargy, soared in a manner reminiscent of the 1928 and 1929 bull markets. Probably a sleeping short interest added vigor to the move. But ultimately behind it was a curious, daring action on the part of the copper producers...
What makes copper unique is the manner in which its control rests in the hands of a few men. Fortnight ago these men met in Manhattan. Leading U. S. representative was Cornelius Francis Kelley, president of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and Copper Exporters, Inc., chairman of Copper Institute and spokesman for 25 big U. S. producers. From Belgium there had come M. Fernand Pisart, managing director of the Societe Generale des Minerals, Belgian outlet for the Katanga Mines in the Belgian Congo, and his associate, Camille Gutt...