Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pleased at having plucked this prize away from Lehman Bros, and Blyth & Co., who bid too low, Tri-Continental announced that its syndicate would keep a third of the shares, sell the rest. Rumor was that Newport News's President Homer Lenoir Ferguson, Annapolis man and head of the firm for 25 years, would step up to board chairman, boss the show from there, while his handsome Vice President Roger Williams, former Navy line officer, would take over as president...
...tournament was won by the Radcliffe partnership on the last hand played on which they bid and made four spades doubled. This bridge tournament is one of the few fields where college men and women can meet together on an even competitive basis...
...spoke King Christian X of Denmark in his darkest hour, while German lorries, tanks, airplanes and 50,000 soldiers swarmed over his little land last week to bring it "protection from the Allies." Almost to a man the Danes did as bid, laying aside their arms, getting on with their work as usual-all except the guard at the Royal Palace in Copenhagen, never before invaded by foreign troops. The guards led by Count Valdemar, deemed it their duty to challenge the grey juggernaut as it entered the palace courtyard...
...feet of clay-the lot of many youths. But now, my small, small friend, look about you: there has appeared, even within your field of vision, a figure here and a figure there, a shining crest, lavish with its bounty, geniuses beneath the open sky-you and I should bid them welcome. I walk in the evening of life and, trembling, recognize myself in them; they are youth with jeweled eyes. Yet you begrudge them your recognition; yes, you begrudge them fame. Because you are nobody...
Last week, when Ross's contract was up for renewal, not only Marshall Field & Co., but Wilson & Co., packers, bid briskly for him. But Chicago & North Western outbid them both. This season Norman Ross figures his radio take will reach...