Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their own fashion the steelmasters were doing their bit to put over what has apparently become a prime policy of Big Business-i. e., to sell itself as such to the U. S. Public. Early in the New Deal, on the theory that the best defense was to attack, Business fell into the habit of concentrating its fire on Franklin D. Roosevelt. Belatedly it realized that to abuse the man who at last count was the most popular figure in the land was not precisely the smartest way to regain public confidence. So Business became ''constructive." meaning that...
...some of their mining properties. At that time, Pacific Tin took over a debt of some $7,000,000 from Yukon Gold and most of the company's subsequent earnings have been used to pay off Pacific. The new profits tax may mean an end to that constructive bit of intracompany finance...
First touchdown of the afternoon was the result of the A team's second play, a beautifully executed bit of teamwork and timing--a pass from George Roberts to Gibby Winter, followed by a lateral to Vernon Struck and some fancy stepping on his part, ending in a tally. Roberts failed to convert, hitting one of the uprights...
...after this promising bit of brilliance, the remainder of the first half was a see-saw, neither side being able to stage a consistent advance, and with very little clean blocking...
...servant of a self-deceiving love, Scarlett O'Hara is unique in American fiction. Other characters are good and bad; the minor figures are not sketched with that conciseness and surety which mark the mature artist. Miss Mitchell needs space to develop either a character or a bit of action, and she very wisely, I think, does not hesitate to take that space where it is important. Rhelt Butler is one on whom she lavishes enough care to make him live. A cynicvillain who is undeluded by the sanctity for the Southern cause, he looks after his own welfare...