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...yard sprint, that fracas might have ended in a tie. In the epic battle with Yale last Saturday this great ground-gainer piled up more yards than any other back in the game, not excluding Albie Booth, and pulled off some remarkably spectacular runs. Dartmouth's other great threat, Bill Morton, put on last year one of the most beautiful exhibitions of kicking seen in the Stadium for a long time, and his accurate toe was the chief factor in his team's 7 to 2 victory over the Crimson. But good as these two backs may have been this...
Bankers Warm. The Bank of France last week tried a threat on Wall Street. So, at least, some U. S. bankers thought. Their patriotism, kept sternly in check on ordinary occasions, was abruptly aroused. What was called the "French threat" was this : the Bank of France told Wall Street banks with which it had short term balances of some $600,000,000 that their rate of interest (1½%) was "unsatisfactory...
...word 'stone' can never have the affect of the object. To say, 'I shall pull your nose' may be as effective in producing anger as to carry out the threat. A man's mouth waters when he first eats a lemon, then when he sees another eating it, then when he hears the word 'lemon'. When this occurs he has learned the meaning of the word. It is astonishing (with references to Pawlow,) how much you can tell by watching a dog's mouth water. I certainly think this idea of the conditioned reflex largely covers the question of meaning...
...peak in May the short interest was .4% of the 1,305,516,000 shares listed on the Exchange. The long account carried by brokers on the same date was estimated at 59,000,000 shares or 10^ times the short account. These long accounts were the immediate selling threat in the market, the short account the only compulsory buying power...
...could apparently send marines into Carribean countries, as she has done in the past, with impunity. So long as "maintaining order" is the object, military action is a legal procedure, or could be so construed at least. Even the bombing of a town, if done in defense against a threat to national interests, might escape classification...