Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shotput the University has a strong bid for first and second places, with first practically certain. C. A. Pratt '28 set a new Dartmouth dual meet record last Saturday with a heave of 44 feet and 11 and three-fourths inches. At the same time Hall of Yale was taking first against Princeton at 44 feet six and one-half inches. The contest for second place between David Guarnaccia '29, who has been doing over 44 feet, and Hall, may be one of the turning points in the scoring. First and third places seem fairly well assured, as Stone...
...Russia (see Map), holds the balance of power in Middle Asia betwixt the British Empire and the Soviet Union. He has just learned secretly at London how much Great Britain is prepared to offer for his friendship. Last week it was Russia's turn to cap the British bid and to dazzle King Amanullah with a display more imposing than the English pageantry and war games in his honor which have just cost the British Exchequer some...
...Joseph Duveen did not come away empty handed. For $106,000 he bought a royal Ispahan palace carpet and a marquetry boudoir table for $71,000. The Galleries of the American Art Association were crowded with notables, most of them watching dealers bid for them. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts bought a carpet. All of Judge Gary's things were "good," that is, authentic...
Evidence. Lawyer Owen J. Roberts (prosecution) showed that Fall visited Manhattan for two days in February, 1922, just prior to receiving Sinclair's bid for the lease. Sinclair was in Manhattan. Oddly, Sinclair's bid met the Interior Department's specifications for the lease almost exactly. Did Fall write Sinclair's bid...
...round, each raised the other ?10, as if they were all nearing the limit. The gallery sat back, talking and sighing. They wanted to see the Museum get it, not to have it leave England; but they began to see that there was no way to pass the bids of the collectors. Sure enough, at ?12,500 Mr. Dring stopped and Mr. Roberts, looking out for his American client, picked up the bid. Mr. Maggs dropped out at ?13,500. Mr. Roberts and Dr. Rosenbach went faster, like two puppies chasing each other around a tree. "Fifteen thousand...