Word: brink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the book) "I am convinced that an entirely new chapter is here opening up in both theory and business life. After more than a century devoted to the elaboration . . . and the technique of banking and commercial credit, designed to fit the industrial revolution, we now stand on the brink of another revolution in economic science and economic life, scarcely inferior to its predecessor. If I have succeeded in laying the foundations for a structure devoted to appraising the real meaning of this revolution, I shall be well content to see the stately edifice of the future built...
...dazzling actress, Nina Grant (Violet Heming). After the wedding, the London equivalent of the tabloid (and there is such a thing), publishes his criminal record. But Nina reveals a great heart, in spite of a petty social circle. The play discovers an appealing sincerity that stands on the brink of bleary sentimentality, leans over the edge to peek, but not to topple, into the lava below...
Finally, last week, the Earl of Rosebery, Baron Primrose, 79, onetime Prime Minister (1894-95), valedicted by reactionaries as "the last Victorian," paused on the brink of the grave (TIME, Feb. 15) to incorporate. His thousands of acres (reputedly he is one of the richest landowners in the United Kingdom) were dubbed The Rosebery Estates, Ltd. Capital stock was issued at a pound a share to a total value of ?362,500 ($1,762,000), half common, half preferred...
...Father of our Country standing by the river's brink clad only in humorless dignity...
...vividly a tiger about to spring that many of his associates have since confessed to feeling a twinge of animal terror course down their spines. . . . Now the Tiger has retired, dwells quietly at 8 Rue Franklin, Paris, proclaims to his friends (TIME, April 5) that he treads the brink of the grave. He is 85. But even as he speaks of death, the unquenchable fire darts from his eyes. The grey, suede-gloved hands have still the air of sheathing tiger claws. . . . Last week M. Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau, responding no doubt to an appeal from his old friend...