Word: brisker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showmanship. To cure that defect the Exposition last week took a promising new managing director to succeed the dethroned Harris Connick (TIME, May 15). Smart, baldish New Director Dr. Charles Henry Strub, onetime ball player and chain dentist, present-day Santa Anita race-track operator, is all for brisker ballyhoo and livelier amusements. He may yet make Treasure Island a bigger attraction. Most notable of its present sights...
...next Congress. It was a full-speed signal for SEC's plan for segregating the function of broker and dealer, conferences with the reluctant New York Stock Exchange on that subject being scheduled for this week. And it was apparently considered a general order to SEC for brisker performance on its regular beat patrolling the U. S. securities business...
...mathematical laws, the sections must inevitably run on at the mean level of intelligence of the men who make it up. As a result, the sections are usually designed for the C-man, acting as a ball-and-chain on the student fitted to go on at a brisker pace and leaving in a hopeless cloud of academic dust the E-man who cannot possibly keep up the pace...
Professor Adrian, 43, is a brisker, more active individual. He climbs mountains (Mt. Blanc last year), rides a bicycle the mile between his Cambridge home and laboratory. When he is working or otherwise preoccupied he is inclined to be irritable and abrupt, especially with slow students. But with his associates, particularly those who are interested in his field, he bubbles with enthusiasm and information. He too has a portfolio of international honors given for his studies of nerve conduction. His most delicate work has been to separate the microscopic, floss-like fibres which constitute a nerve and splice them into...
Quick to attempt to cash in on the brisker bond market last week was Howard Colwell Hopson, dominating figure in Associated Gas & Electric Co., who surprised his bankers last spring when he offered a "baby bond" issue just as the U. S. was selling "baby bonds" to combat hoarding (TIME, March 7). Not selling many baby bonds, not exchanging all of its new 364-day Staten Island Edison notes for maturing old ones (TIME, June 20), Mr. Hopson has lately been in a tight fix. His company must raise $18,556,000 to meet early bond maturities. Last week...