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Back of the dispute about the inquirer's $100,000, as a matter of fact, lie several serious questions of economic theory. Some months ago, a Wall Street iconoclast, Edgar L. Smith, wrote a book, Common Stocks as Long Term Investments, which proved that shares were better long pull investments than bonds. This caused no small ruffling in the Wall Street dovecote, especially among its bond houses, but Mr. Smith's figures were persuasive. Now, with the public seriously preferring shares to bonds, some Wall Street bond dealers feel that the pendulum is swinging...
...meteors. Others have believed that the multitude of craters on the moon's surface are the chilly orifices of extinct volcanoes, mementoes of the aeons just after the moon, a molten fragment, was flung off from the earth's mass, arrested in the heavens by the pull of terrestrial gravity and started in its perpetual monthly swing. Prof. Gifford's contention is that, since the moon has no appreciable enveloping atmosphere, a meteor whizzing into it at 40 mi. or so per second would not be retarded as it would be near earth, and burned...
Coach Haines gave his freshman eight a long pull in both the morning and afternoon, without any attempt being made for speed work. A noticeable improvement in the form of the Crimson 1928 oarsmen has strengthened the belief here that the Eli first year crew will not have the set-up on June 19 which appeared to be the case several weeks...
...general purpose of this paper," writes Richard Steele in his opening Tatler, "is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour...
...Said Mr. Ford to the press: "Why, do you know it will cost us approximately $400,000 to get ready to pull the ships apart...