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Bliss scholarships and University scholarships to Ralph W. Brake, of Rocky Mount, N. C.; Engene S. Hurd, of Watersmeet, Mich.; and Howard A. Poat of Minneapolis, Minn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Awards Fellowships and Scholarships to Forty-Seven | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

...Railroads bought long-deferred modern equipment when traffic picked up last fall. Westinghouse Air Brake delivered these orders in 1940's first quarter, netted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Paradox of the First Quarter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...fitted at the bottom with a wooden disk to prevent the pole from digging too deeply into the snow, appears in an illustration from a book published in 1664. Norwegian soldiers in 1820 and a California pioneer in 1854 all used a single, Jong pole, as much for a brake on a down-hill run as for support climbing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scandinavian Skiers Rout Enemy in 16th Century, Widener Exhibit Shows | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

...trite to point out that when founded the Court was to serve two principal ends: it was to serve as a healthy brake on dangerous democratic tendencies among the people; and it was to fill out the meaning of a Constitution purposely left vague by its writers. The power to declare legislative enactments void may never have been intended for the Court; historians still disagree. Surely the extraordinary veto powers assumed by the 1932-36 body of nine old men was never envisaged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REVOLUTION OF 1937 | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

...financial experiences of the 1914-18 period are not likely to be forgotten and the fact that many of our mistakes arose from a failure to prepare for a long war is now acting as a brake on our overseas expenditure, where such expenditure involves the purchase of currencies standing at a premium to sterling; though from every point of view our economic position is far stronger today than it was in 1914. This applies to France as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Mouse & Lion | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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