Word: chanter
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...vivre et de chanter...
...forget what you learn through suffering." Only enjoyment that did not tempt him to moralize was listening to bagpipes. Whether he heard them in Edinburgh or in his family parlor, he gave himself up to wholehearted love for "the throbbing of the drones and the wild shriek of the chanter...
...preferred shares of Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. Six months ago, when Studebaker Corp. passed into receivership (TIME, March 27), Fierce-Arrow went quietly on its normal way. Officers of Fierce-Arrow were chagrined, however, to have their pseudo-parent in receivership. Last week President Arthur J. Chanter of Fierce-Arrow announced that with the backing of George Franklin Rand, head of the Marine Midland group of banks, Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf, Seymour H. Knox and Roland Lord O'Brian, Studebaker's Fierce-Arrow holdings had been bought cut. Fierce-Arrow had a net profit...
Arthur J. Chanter, vice president and general manager of Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co.. was made president in recognition of the fact that in the last five years he has doubled Fierce-Arrow's share of sales in the fine car market. This spring the company produced mainly for exhibition purposes a $10,000 "Silver Arrow" model without exterior gadgets (spare tires, luggage rack, etc., etc.), with enclosed wheels and scientific streamlining to reduce wind resistance 35%, hailed as forecast of the cars of 1940. Fierce-Arrow is not affected by the receivership of Studebaker which owns...
...with marshes, and the water between Boston and Newtowne (Cambridge) was a river instead of a bay. Travelers in those day did not have the convenience of a bridge; their only means of transport was a primitive cable ferry, for which a small fee was charged. By its original chanter, the Commonwealth granted to the College the right to collect these fees, which became its chief source of revenue. Nearly two centuries later, when the bridge was built, that income was out off. The least the builders could do in compensation was to name the bridge for the College...