Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game soon noted that the exposed hand made possible much greater subtlety and ingenuity of play. In 1903 or thereabouts, bridge-playing British civil servants stationed at a remote outpost in India hit upon the idea of bidding for the privilege of naming the trump suit. Within a decade, auction bridge had captured the card tables of the U.S. and Europe...
KNCU's five-story headquarters in the town of Moshi is in itself a symbol of the Chagga's progress. Built around a flowering courtyard of bougainvillaea and poinsettia, it not only houses offices and auction rooms, but also one of Tanganyika's few public libraries. Soon KNCU hopes to build a $15,000 community center for plays, concerts, art and agricultural exhibits...
...even snagged and ate the latest edition of the daily Cordoba. As the pack prospered and multiplied on such fare, fines were imposed on loose burros and a squad of "burreros" was formed to round them up. The owners just waited and eventually bought back their animals at city auction for purely nominal prices. Public opinion would not stand for destroying the strays...
...Gauguin's Still Life with Apples, bought at auction last year by Greek Shipping Magnate Basil Peter Goulandris for the highest known price ($297,000) ever paid for a modern oil (TIME, June 24, 1957). ¶ Most of the little-seen Stephen C. Clark collection, including Van Gogh's Cafe de Nuit, El Greco's Saint Andrew, Rembrandt's Praying Pilgrim, Cezanne's Card Players...
...being, of course, to stay on their feet.) For the upper grades, the approach is more subtle. You forgot your tie? Put a quarter in the bank or stay after school. And this is really ingenious: Sister 'sells' the desks to the class by way of an auction. You want a certain seat, you bid dimes and quarters against your classmates. Winner gets the desired seat, missions get the money, parents end up screaming...