Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk, which he rarely quits before 7 p. m., Publisher Sulzberger is quietly brisk, occasionally pausing in his talk to reach for the automatic telephone, flip by memory one of the hundred-odd numbers in the Times private exchange. He reads all editorials in galley proof, sprays his staff with marked clippings, suggestions for stories and editorials...
Because Adolf Hitler denounced and violated the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, March 25), underwriters of London's ubiquitous Lloyds did a brisk business last week insuring against war in Europe at distinctly shorter odds...
...might sit at his desk, his dwarfed body perched on a high cushion, his feet touching a tall hassock beneath the desk. A half dozen visitors or subordinates usually sat in chairs around the walls, waiting their turn to talk with Mr. Wiley. He was quietly, courteously brisk. While listening intently to an underling he might sign letters, scribble instructions...
...Backbone of International Business Machines Corp. is the famed Hollerith electric tabulator, but I. B. M. also does a brisk business in meat grinders and sausage slicers. Last week I. B. M. reported that earnings last year were $6,597,000 against...
...Brisk farm trade last spring boosted International Harvester Co.'s orders. Drought whittled them down. But Harvester finished the year in the black for the first time in three years with net profits of $3,949,000 against a loss...