Word: brine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activities of the Harvard Student Agencies will not interfere with businesses in the Square, according to James W. Brine, president of the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association...
After conferring with Dustin M. Burke '52, general manager of the HSA, Brine said he was convinced that the purpose of the proposed photography agency was to work with the H.A.A. in supplying them with athletic photos. "Any business is going to hurt someone," he said, but added that the agency is trying awfully hard not to interfere with business in the Square...
...Marblehead" ("And not just because he is bald"). In civilian life Marblehead was a broker (Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Beane), and he got himself a direct commission "without the corrupting effect of any intervening naval training." He compensates for this deficiency by soaking his gold braid in brine whenever the green seems to be wearing off, and by declaring loud and often, in peculiarly defective sailor-Latin ("You're getting my bilge up!"), that a P.R.O. does just as much...
...accident made him shoot to the surface like a balloon. A diver on a passing boat recommended taking Oyama ashore and stretching him out, head down, on a steep slope. This too was done. In the next 60 hours Oyama was alternately parboiled and marinated in the brine of Nagasaki...
...Investment. Six years later in Gloucester, Mass., curiosity turned to opportunity as Birdseye went into the wholesale fish business. Up to then fish shippers had been turning out a slow-frozen, cold-storage product that looked like fish and often tasted like mush. In vesting $7 in buckets of brine, blocks of ice and an electric fan, Birdseye started to quick-freeze fish. Birdseye's process turned out well; his finances, however, were not equal to the strain of setting up a large manufacturing and distributing organization, and he went broke. Unfazed. he hocked his life insurance and gambled...