Word: close
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to the best etymological authority TIME could muster, Reader Kennedy's shrewd guess comes as close as anybody's; but "all get-out" is older than covered-wagon days...
...lawyer. His last big job before he became Hearst's boss 21 months ago was as trial counsel for the Chase National Bank in a series of stockholders' suits (TIME, April 26, 1937), and in handling Mr. Hearst's financial affairs he has worked in close harmony with the Chase, Hearst's largest banking creditor...
...important consequences may follow from this agreement. Close economic ties with Brazil may result in close cultural relations and quite possibly military arrangements. Although the latter were ummentioned in the pact, there has been considerable discussion about making America's armament supplies available for her poorly armed Southern neighbor. Secondly, the Brazilian Pact may set in motion a series of United States, Latin-American trade arrangements that will change the whole complexion of the South American situation. The closer the Pan-American ties become, the less the danger of European totalitarian philosophy, and the brighter the future of freedom...
...greatest disappointment came in the 145 pound class as Bruce Richardson was defeated with a fall by Becker of Syracuse. In a close battle, Pete Ill-man was downed by John Bird of Yale in the 155 pound class, and Ted Schoenberg was nosed out for a decision by Norman Bond of Penn. who had defeated him earlier in the season. Another close bout was fought between Duncan Longcope and Bortz, a stellar Penn. State wrestler...
...place of the extant unstable system of appointment, the Report recommends the substitution of a three-years term for all full-time appointees. Such a measure would eliminate the threat of dismissal which instructors must now feat at the close of each semester; the resulting increase in stability of working conditions could not help but produce a higher standard of work. As a corollary to this three-year plan, the Union urges that the University decide the question of permanent appointment after an instructor's eighth year of service. A definite policy to the appointees and to the department...