The Nifty Fifty were the fifty stocks that propelled the bull market of the early 1970s. Though many are still solid performers, several of these are now worthless.
... (cf. the De tabernaculis, and
Hortus rosarum, Pohl's ed., ut inf., i. also iii. 357,
vi. 219, 235 sqq.).
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