Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, the Stock Market, though nervous and uncertain, ran up loans to brokers another $140,000,000, to a total of $5,647,000,000, not so far below the six billion total that prompted the Federal Reserve Board's February warning. The increase in loans was mostly from corporations, not from banks, and as long as corporations can lend out their surpluses at up to 12% call money rates, the banks generally maintain that there is no way of keeping money out of Wall St. Mr. Warburg's statement did not much annoy the speculators, who were inclined...
...Just now, I'm trying vaudeville for the first time in my life, and I certainly was nervous when I first stepped on the stage. Why, I was trembling so much, I'm afraid they must have thought I was trying to do the shimmy, before I'd even thought about it. But after the first minute or so, everything went wonderful and I seemed to have the audience right with me. They never fail to react when I give them that old Black Bottom or some of the rest of my stuff...
...doing things to develop the former rather than waste it in analyzing the latter. One has only to picture the fate of any poor man who set out to discover exactly why he came to college. If he were lucky he might escape with nothing worse than a complete nervous collapse, and it is certain that he would not succeed in satisfying himself, or his critics, or the requirements for his degree...
Last week there remained 270½ new seats yet to be filled. Their value will probably skip up and down with the nervous pulse of the market...
...Market. None of these measures was by themselves particularly drastic (was offset, for example, by failure to raise the rediscount rate), but taken altogether they gave nervous speculators chills & fever. On Friday call money went from 6½% to 10% and the whole market went off in a sharp decline that continued through Saturday's closing. There was nothing resembling a panic but the orderly retreat was rapid, sustained, unchecked by short covering...