Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...championship of the world: Mr. Stewart won by two wins to one-with 47 drawn games. . . . I realize . . . that your mail will not be likely to bring you a very favorable reaction to the proposition. The ability of Mr. Banks, as our foremost match player, as a player and analyst of international fame and as an editor has long been established. Chess is more widely played than checkers. I believe. It is more complex and outwardly spectacular, but is by no manner of means even approximately as scientific. Every position in checkers is a problem in pure mathematics...
...Leonor Fresnel Loree, ablest railroad analyst in the U. S., is apparently blocked from creating a great fifth trunk system in the East, in rivalry to the New York Central, Pennsylvania, B. & O. and proposed Nickel Plate System. He controls the Wabash (Mississippi River and Great Lakes Ports to Buffalo; it reaches the Port of New York over the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western), the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh (connecting those cities), the Delaware & Hudson (upstate New York to the St. Lawrence). The B. & O. and the New York Central own control of the Philadelphia & Reading. In this particular road Mr. Loree...
...been so long in the habit of investing outside of New England as to make it bad form to keep your money at home"). Commerce Director Julius Klein also accuses New England industry of narrowness. While studying 350 firms there, he found that only one had a business analyst. Like pre-War Europe this section has disastrous overconfidence in past methods and trade processes, whereas U. S. "industry has grown precisely because it has the highest scrapheap in the world." The machinery in one New England textile factory averaged 23 years in age. One shoe factory kept making high buttoned...
...brummy" should connote wile, or "snig" an unseen Elysium is another question. Undoubtedly serapana" is more comprehensible. Still the idea persists in one's mind that these epithets were better submitted to the author's psycho-analyst than imposed on an already stuttering world...
...Robinson, Laconic Analyst, Is Once More Too Much At Ease With Nemesis...