Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps the least sincere statement of his whole trip. "Do you realize," he said, "that I come from a community that gives politics little thought?" The inaccuracy of this statement was that New Yorkers were "thinking plenty" about politics-thinking that perhaps the Walker trip was, after all, a bid to succeed Governor Smith at Albany...
...this covert insult another was speedily added when a Budapest junk dealer was permitted to bid in for 1,800 pengoes ($300) a quantity of scrap parts which could not be positively identified as identical with or different from those discovered on New Year's Day at the Austro-Hungarian frontier by an Austrian customs official but since then exclusively in the hands of Hungarians...
...rayon announcement was made after the end of the stock market day in London; the next morning, before the Exchange opened (the London outdoor curb market keeps the hours it pleases), the curb brokers on Throgmorton Street, unshaven and madly perturbed, bid the shares up from a little above ?7 to well above ?9. When the clock in Capel Court, a few blocks away from Throgmorton Street over the low City roofs, struck its nine slow bells, the sun slanted a bright beam into Throgmorton Street and the official Exchange opened. Here, the bidding corrected the excesses that the curb...
Hardly less spectacular was the two mile victory of B. R. Cutcheon '25 over Nazro of Dartmouth whose desperate bid for first place in the latter stages of the race forced Cutcheon to surpass himself and eliminated the other Crimson entries, P. F. Coburn '24 and J. F. Ryan '26. R. L. Hyatt '24 took first place in the broad jump. The heave of C. A. Eastman '24, which covered 43 feet and one half inches in the shot put, surpassing the old record by seven inches and the recovery of Captain Merrill from some recovery of Captain Merrill from...
Green Makes Desperate Bid...