Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weight of this evidence that higher margins reduced trading was weakened somewhat by the fact that one of the three sample days was April 30, when stock prices were close to their spring bottom. Fact remained, however, that the volume of trading dropped enormously after 55% margins went into effect. After a turnover of 51,000,000 shares for March, Stock Exchange sales dropped off to 39,600.000 in April, 20,600,000 in May, and recovered hardly at all in June (21,400,000). It seemed unlikely that full blame for the slump could be laid on outside market...
...tradition for U. S. authors of travel books which has persisted ever since. Brooding, melancholy, suspicious of the claims of foreign patriots, Hawthorne found little to cheer him except the occasional kindness shown by slum children to children still smaller. Critic Edmund Wilson was writing in that classic, if somewhat astringent, mood when last month he offered his skeptical impressions of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in Travels in Two Democracies. For most of his long (412 pages) Two Worlds, Lester Cohen also adopts the tired tone of his predecessors, finding little to awaken his enthusiasm...
Were it not for my extreme faith in the Cunard White Star Line, I would have been somewhat bewildered by the statement (TIME, June 8) of A. P. Herbert, Punch's M. P., that there is a plate on the promenade deck of the Queen Mary recording that Lord Burghley ran a circuit of the deck-570 yd.-in 58 seconds, "untrained and unchanged...
...Southern sharecropper for the right to buy food, gin & sell his part of the cotton crop wherever he wants, instead of where the landlord wants. Still older is the story of the sub-subsistence living level of some 2,000,000 Southern tenant farmers. But a newer and somewhat brighter tale is that of the incipient cropper colony movement, both public and private...
...black-breasted plover, wild turkeys and the like are extinct. Artist Hunt is the man who makes animal stories look so attractive in fiction magazines. This volume testifies eloquently that he, like Etcher Frank Benson, has gone to nature for his learning, really knows his game. The publisher will somewhat exasperate his customers by including only four color prints, and one of those a too-streamlined conception of canvasback, but the black & white pages are made warm by the artist's pencilled notes, ''Yellow Legs, Fire Island-The Good Old Days!"; "Wings of the River Ducks, Monroe...