Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sticks & Screams. Her three children-Michael, 18, May, 14, and Sandra, 3-followed her through the yard. After she had stepped into the practice arena, with a chair in one hand and a short stick in the other, Michael climbed up the bars on the outside, unhooked the sliding door between the arena and the small lion cage...
...opened again for the first batch to be paroled. A few days before Christmas, 54 second-string war criminals were released from Landsberg, the gloomy fortress prison where 25 years ago Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf; their sentences did not expire until next year, but U.S. authorities cut them short for "good behavior...
Before the publishing house of George Newnes Ltd., just off London's Strand, a hansom cab stopped and out stepped an elegant young man in top hat and frock coat. He was Arthur Conan Doyle, come to deliver the manuscript of a short story entitled A Scandal in Bohemia. Published in the six-month-old Strand magazine, in July 1891, the story's hero was a sleuth named Sherlock Holmes. He was an instant hit and so was the Strand...
Department stores had never seen anything quite like it. Across the land, a surge of buying sent sales to an alltime record the announcement that the short interest (i.e., the number of shares sold short in anticipation of a decline) had risen 61,311 shares in the last month to 2,267,481, the highest since July 1932, was good news to the bulls. They argued that a further advance would result when the bears scurried to buy back the shares they had sold short. And any decline, ran the argument, would be cushioned as the shorts bought to realize...