Word: breach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depression-cowed governments which turn in their hours of need to authorities who in prosperous times are impractical academicians, Economics 3 is from time to time deprived of its ever changing first string lecturer. But the cream of Harvard's crop of economists is always thrown into the breach. Last year, during Professor Williams' absence in Geneva as one of the American experts to the World Economic Conference, Professor Josef Schumpeter, former Minister of Austrian finance, initiated 300 wrapt listeners into the theory of deposit creation and retirement and the higher mysteries of the exchange mechanism. This year, Assistant Professor...
...breach of promise verdict obtained by Emelia Tersini, London waitress, against colossal Primo Camera, and to Camera's ensuing petition in bankruptcy (TIME, April 10; et seq.): denial by the New York Supreme Court of Signorina Tersini's application to have a receiver appointed for the $16,000 earned by Camera when he won the heavyweight championship from Jack Sharkey (TIME, July 10). Champion Camera-who last week was picking up change by personal appearances in a Broadway vaudeville house-claimed he had paid his fight receipts to his manager Louis Soresi for a farm in Italy. Said...
...world knows about the Boston Athenaeum; few know that non-members are not only allowed, but invited, to push open its massive doors at 10 1-2 Beacon street. It would be a distinct breach to ask to see the famous collection of "scruple" books in which the members dip at will; and you mustn't even cast a longing eye at the Vanity Fairs laid out in the magaxine reading room. The Athenaeum, however, is a place no explorer should miss, even if the glimpse is a brief one, for the Athenaeum is the distilled quintessence of Bostonlanism. Hours...
...well-paid, well-drilled troops against the walls of Dolonor in southeast Chahar, held by Manchukuan irregulars and two brigades of Japanese regulars. Four times they were thrown back, once demoralized by bombs from seven Japanese planes. Last week, on the fifth assault, Feng's men made a breach in the walls, swept the Manchukuan and Japanese troops across the city and out the east gate. Japanese, unfamiliar with victorious Chinese, charged the city garrison's general with having sold...
heavyweight boxing champion who had filed as a bankrupt with liabilities including a $14,390 breach of promise judgment to a London waitress, testified that he possessed only an automobile, $631 cash. Asked about his profits from the Sharkey fight, he grunted: "No see that money...