Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present day economic and social structure; and with the increasing insignificance of a mere diploma and the necessity for some kind of graduate work, the need of a solution becomes over more obvious. With the true courage born of despair, Mr. Lindsey has sought to attain in a single bound to a peak which it will doubtless require several generations of laborious effort to reach with any degree of security. Unfortunately, the gullet of the general public is of conservative dimensions, and has never yet been known to swallow reform in large and radical chunks. And for all Mr. Lindsey...
...present Greyhound structure is Greyhound Corp., a holding company. It controls Greyhound Management Co. which supervises operations of the midwest division. Most of the actual operating companies are not actually controlled, but coordinated schedules have been arranged over the entire system, and affiliated lines are closely bound by use of the word "Greyhound" and by joint purchasing agreements...
Arthur Cutten, Chicago broker, employs detectives. Eight years ago nine men broke into his mansion at Downers Grove, Ill., bound his family, stowed him in a basement vault to smother, stole $20,000 worth of jewelry, $500 in cash, 25 cases of whiskey. Last week Mr. Cutten's detectives caught the eighth of his 1922 assailants, one Simon Rosenberg, the gangleader, in Cleveland. Gloated Mr. Cutten: "Number eight! When I get number nine, this one's brother, I'll be through with...
Power's script,?wound, bobbin-bound, refined?...
...gray dawn of Thursday April 10, three intrepid Harvard cyclers A. T. Gray '30, J. S. Ames '32, and K. G. Pender '30, mounted bicycles in front of the Mt. Aubura Street dormitories, faced a battery of press cameras, and whirled off bound for New York. On Friday, after an actual riding time of something more than 24 hours, the three riders pedalled into New York, winning, money for their backers in Cambridge, and giving evidence that they at least had not utterly resigned themselves to the gasoline age. A fourth rider at the start, mounted on a tandem bicycle...