Word: biddings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second to quick step was the Podesta of Rovigno, small but flourishing Venetian city. His bid for the Dictator's favor was to install a visa system. Hereafter peasants who may wish to move in from the country to Rovigno must apply for a permit 15 days in advance and have it visaed by the Chief of Police. Implacable, the Podesta announced that such visas "will only be granted in case the residence of the applicant in Rovigno is considered necessary or extremely desirable...
...October that the Cuttens began operations in Sinclair Consolidated. They bid for it by the ten thousand, by the twenty thousand, by the forty thousand-share blocks. Once indeed Nephew Cutten bid for 100,000 shares of Sinclair at 42-a transaction involving $4,200,000. Finally, on Oct. 26, it was announced that Arthur W. Cutten was to become a director of Sinclair Consolidated-one of the very few directorates on which Mr. Cutten has ever consented to serve. According to the general estimate, he has purchased 1,300,000 shares of Sinclair. He controls probably...
...group were A. S. Bigelow '29, H. W. Bigelow '29, F. R. S. Giddens '30, G. C. Holbrook '30, C. B. Lakin '30, and M. N. Stanley '29 who are expected to form the nucleus of the new sextet. However several star performers on last year's Freshman combination bid fair to furnish stiff competition to the lettermen. Among the most promising from the Class of 1931 are J. B. Garrison '31 and S. L. Batchelder...
...last quarter the Bruin Freshmen staged a final bid for a touchdown with a hard-hitting march down half the length of the field, but were held on downs at Harvard's 30-yard line...
...designing strangers, Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen, had not reckoned on the many patriotic Dutchmen, particularly the cosmopolite Deterding. He sped over from London. When the bidding began the potency of Dutch oil, of Dutch nurture, became plain. The Letter by Gerard Terboch stood on the easel, a slight canvas in which a pretty maiden is seen writing a billet-doux. There was a fusillade of bidding. Sir Henri pounced on the foreigners, kept raising the bid "dix mille guilders" at a leap. He triumphed at $127,600. It all happened again with Jacob Ochtervelt's The Oyster Eaters. For this...