Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Record. The Nathan report failed to distinguish between what might be and what would be. He said wages could be raised without raising prices. The record was against him. Prices broke through Government controls last year. Now controls have been removed. Management, interpreting facts in its own way and using its own judgment, will certainly raise prices if it has to raise wages. Even as the C.I.O. got ready to swing the Nathan club, General Motors' President C. E. Wilson stated flatly that price rises would follow wage rises as night follows day. Whether the policy was stupid...
First blood was drawn for the Cantabs last night by Bill Hamlin at 3:03 on a play that broke straight down the middle with an assist from Lou Preston. From then on the battle was wide open as 12 offenders were sent to the penalty box in the course of the proceedings...
Abbot, an offensive standout throughout the game, broke the spell for the yearlings after they had fallen behind, 3 to 0, as he blasted a pass from Bob Almy past the Rindge goalkeeper after less than two minutes of the second period had gone by. With the school six on the defensive, the Crimson forwards increased the pressure, scoring again one and a half minutes later on Tom Lamb's goal...
...Delegate Archibald MacLeish broke the silence by telling the press that the U.S. had voted for Huxley. (Earlier the Americans had agitated for Francis Biddle, ex-Attorney General of the U.S. and one of the Nürnberg judges.) When the new director-general followed up MacLeish by revealing a promise to resign after two years of his six-year term, observers scented a compromise...
...Clowns are the world's incompetents. They are bound to the wheel of incompetence or they cease to be clowns. Chaplin once, in The Gold Rush, broke the underlying significance of his role and spoiled a great film. He forgot Chariot the outcast to become a millionaire and marry the girl, like any John Gilbert or Ronald Colman. Clowns cannot possibly stoop to such romance. They are, in essence, super realists . . . tragedians in disguise. Their endings are happy for everyone but themselves...