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Usage examples of crookes.

You don't suppose, do you, that old man Crookes, or Kenniston, or little Sweeny, or all that lot would give you one little bit of a chance for your life if they got a grip on you.

A "Bull" clique had evidently been formed, presumably of New York capitalists, who were ousting the Crookes crowd and were rapidly coming into control of the market.

D'ye think Crookes, now, couldn't make Bear sentiment with the public, with just the lift o' one forefinger?

Crookes, though, was saying to me--Cal Crookes, you know--he was saying he didn't care who he was.

At the end of the third week of the month Freye reported to Crookes that Cressler was "in," and promptly negotiations were opened between the clique and the great banking house of the Stires.

He knew that he overtopped them all--Gretry, the Crookes gang, the arrogant, sneering Bears, all the men of the world of the Board of Trade.

High time to get to sleep, if I'm to mix things with Crookes to-morrow.

Promptly at half-past nine o'clock on Tuesday morning Crookes began to sell May wheat short, and instantly, to the surprise of every Pit trader on the floor, the price broke with his very first attack.

Landry Court, the known representative of the firm which all along had fostered and encouraged the rise in the price, appeared in the Pit, and instead of buying, upset all precedent and all calculation by selling as freely as the Crookes men themselves.

Jadwin had, as Gretry put it, "timed Crookes to a split second," foreseeing the exact moment when he would make his supreme effort.

Sure enough, on that very Saturday Crookes was selling more freely than ever, confident of breaking the Bull ere the closing gong should ring.

Cressler laid the slip carefully down upon the ledge of the desk, and though Crookes did not look up, he could almost feel how the man braced himself, got a grip of himself, put all his resources to the stretch to meet this blow squarely in the front.

I was one of the merry paretics who believed that Crookes was the Great Lum tum.

But at the doorway stood a figure that Landry recognised at once--a small man, lean-faced, trimly dressed, his clean-shaven lips pursed like the mouth of a shut money bag, imperturbable as ever, cold, unexcited--Calvin Crookes himself.

The device Zambendorf had donated to the Taloids before returning to the Orion was a joint effort—constructed by Joe Fellburg with the aid of assembly diagrams and programs donated by Leon Keyhoe, parts supplied by Dave Crookes, and a terminal assembly stolen by Abaquaan from the Orion’s electronics stores.