Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became Studebaker's vice president in charge of sales, helped reorganize the company when it went broke in 1933. He has been president since 1935. Married, he has five sons, two daughters. A tireless, hard driver, he is a non-smoker and a teetotaler...
...politics are now the backbone of the reform. Says Roberts: "Pendergast had civic leadership constricted. He even controlled the Chamber of Commerce. Good and able citizens took no part in the city's affairs. If they bucked the machine, they were liable to personal harm. When the machine broke down, we had a flood of new blood. Where there were a few civic leaders a few years ago, there are now scores...
...Dublin, prominent citizens, including Sean MacBride, Eire's new Foreign Minister, founded the Association of Civil Liberties to "educate the public on the rights of the individual." To be sure, the first meeting almost broke up in disorder when one man asked, "By what authority does the association claim the right to educate others?" But Irishmen still thought the association was a good idea. The sponsors felt that human rights and freedoms could not be taken for granted; they were worth thinking about. Perhaps it was as much worth doing as anything else that preoccupied people this spring...
...personality analysis is computed on the basis of who talked for how long, who was responsible for interruptions and silences, and who broke these silences...
Mauran accounted for a conversion kick before he left the game. Princeton broke the usual rugby rules by allowing Harvard to substitute a player at the beginning of the second half in place of Mauran. Coach Jim Nuland came into the game, and soon accounted for another three points by a penalty kick for goal to raise the score to 8-all. It was only then that the Harvard injuries were felt. The forwards were worn out from being pushed back by the Nassau scrum, and the backfield minus Eaton and Mauran could hardly keep up with the Princeton team...