Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black's plan is to secure IFC's money with debentures, a cross between stocks and bonds which pay a fixed interest, fluctuate in value, represent ownership in the company but carry no voting rights. With this device, rarely used in international finance, IFC can avert the stigma of creeping socialism (it will have no voice in management) while realizing capital gains. Black expects most debentures to be convertible into common stock, so that IFC will find a ready market when it is ready to take its profits out of a smoothly running new business...
...Sample: Three boy scouts reported that their good deed for the day had been helping an old lady cross the street. Asked the scoutmaster: "Why did it take all three of you to help her across?" Chorused the boys: "She didn't want to cross...
...typical group might discuss, for example, how science has at times succumbed to social pressures, yet has still affected the philosophical assumptions of the world around it. But if separate groups were formed for students of biology and physics, it is important that they should not be afraid to cross the barriers of their field. For the elementary knowledge of physics, which all biology students must have, would be useful in developing themes outside the world of mice and earthworms...
...year's first track meet is more than a month away, but workouts have already started in Briggs Cage, and freshman coach Al Wilson is centering his hopes for a third straight undefeated season around a nucleus of middle distance runners from the cross country squad. Yardling harrier captain Pete Reider leads a group of four from a cross-country team that lost only one meet...
Several Houses have experimented with programs of cross-tutorial and the committee is considering whether to put them on a broader and more permanent basis...