Word: bugaboo
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...Bugaboo of all corporation managements are plans of recapitalization. Usually such plans involve asking stockholders to waive overdue dividends. Invariably hey ask stockholders to swap something hey have bought in good faith for some ew security of uncertain worth. When here are several different classes of stock ach class is likely to feel that its interests ave been sacrificed for the others...
Peculiarly enough, many of the Freshmen with several years of skiing in Switzerland did not show up well. Trails seem to be the bugaboo of many European trained skiers, and not being accustomed to them, they get nervous. It takes a while for them to get on to the ropes of trail running. Later on we'll be hearing more about Freshmen...
...squad, a good basis for optimism can be found. Bob Playfair, pace-setter and captain of the Crimson pack, broke the HYP tape last year and was undefeated until he sunk spike in the Van Cortlandt Park Intercollegiate track. It was there that hills, the old Crimson cross country bugaboo, proved to be too stiff a handicap and forced him back to twentieth place. This year, however, Bob has been leading his teammates over the grassy slopes of the Brookline Country Club, loping over bunkers with apparent case and utter disregard of the Brookline Motor-mounted Police. In spite...
...Yankee peddler. Its line, buckles, screw machine parts, purse frames, ornaments; leather, metal and bakelite specialities; automobile hardware radio tube pins, clips, sockets, soldering lugs; fastener attaching machines; fasteners for automobile, airplane and motor boat upholstery, carpets, tops, curtains; or luggage, footwear, gloves, raincoats, overalls, caps. Chief bugaboo of United-Carr Fastener is the ubiquitous zipper...
...WATCH Cornell" has been the bugaboo of every shell since the first big race on the Hudson, July 2, 1901." For it was the big Red crew that won the first three races and 10 of the first 12 races. Since that time, the Cornell record has not been as high although in recent years they have been standing with Columbia as the best the East can offer against the double western threat of Washington and California...