Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there not been a shake-up two years ago in Transcontinental Air Transport, which was losing heavily. The shake-up shook out Collins, who was general superintendent, and Vidal of the technical committee. Angry, because they felt that T. A. T. had publicized their discharge as a sort of burnt offering to disgruntled stockholders, Vidal & Collins saw a chance to square accounts. Together they had developed the germ of the plane-per-hour service. If they could start such a line in the East, they might compete with Eastern Air Transport which, like...
...string of 25 racehorses for the disappointing price of $81,300. He still retains his crack breeding farm at Jobstown. N. J., where lives Zev, winner of the 1923 Kentucky Derby. Reason for the Sinclair sale: Last month Saratoga race stewards looked askance when the Sinclair entry in the Burnt Hill handicap was discovered to be poisoned. They declared Sinclair's trainer responsible, but not culpable, for the horse's condition, barred the Sinclair stable from entering horses in races overnight...
...ever put forward. Therefore, there is no danger of them missing a square deal. "I advise you [Dr. Coffey and Dr. Humber] not to push this undertaking in New York in the face of this organized opposition. Confine your activities to California for the present. Other men have been burnt by cancer remedies. I've been burnt by one or two myself." Last Word. The New York State Department of Social Welfare which conducted hearings last week and in March on the Coffey-Humber fight, issued no immediate decision on the Coffey-Humber permit. It is not stretching...
...coach-manager twelve has been practicing for several days perfecting plays and determining the best possible combination for the engagement. G. G. Snider '26 is expected to bear the burnt of the defense at goal, with C. E. Heintz grE.S., F. A. Pickard 2G. B., T. D. Carman '31 and Herbert Gustafson '32 as defense...
...Barry, Kelley, Green, and Howard, Mr. Nathan disposes of them as a "dramatic barbershop quartette." In Vincent Lawrence, on the other hand, he finds the most gifted of present day comic-dramatists. From the rest," . . . we get the current liberal smear of pseudo-profound poppycock dealing with burnt-cork Spinozas, flapper Margaret Sangers, Strindbergian street-walkers and doughboy Bismarcks...