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...some time there has been jesting in the press galleries at the Capitol about a "certain southern Senator," formerly a fierce denouncer of Wall Street and the interests and until recently only moderately well-to-do, who during last summer made some $200,000 in real estate and whose philippics have now grown milder because he no longer regards all wealth as an evil demon...
...days it continued-days worse than Rich Men's Panic (1901) and the dark April and May of 1920. Wall Street volume-of-trading records, set only last fall by the rising of the blister, went glimmering. The new figure was 3,734,031 shares traded, in March 3. The ticker was 52 minutes late...
...three days the adult worm develops; the male impregnates the female and then dies. In from six to ten days, the embryos are discharged from the uterus of the female worm into the lumen [passageway] of the intestine or into the lymphatics of the intestinal wall. These embryos wander with lymph or blood to the various parts of the body, the majority reaching the striated [banded] muscle and there developing into encysted larvae...
...apiece of real money, theoretically. The market-players last week announced "profits" and "losses" taken, to date. The total profits were $14,000; losses $660, with plungers "selling short" and conservatives "holding on like grim death" during the recent wild days in Wall street (see BUSINESS). Biggest profits went to Helen Levine of New Rochelle, N. Y., with $3,000. Biggest loser was not announced. Parents applauded Professor Smith's sane device for educating "a woman and her money...
...Saxony. Both of these figures, mediaeval symbols of secular and ecclesiastical authority, are remarkable examples of human characterization. Abraham is represented as wielding the sword against the hostile powers of the world, while Melchisedec is shown carrying a cup of libation for spiritual evils. Placed against the same wall before which the Wechselburg Pulpit and Crucifix are mounted, the two figures fit well into the setting and worthily complete the exhibit of thirteenth century Teutonic sculpture...