Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where all this material came from, claimed that servants of the consulate had done his bag-packing. Mr. Goodman's explanation was accepted at face value but, with the full approval of the British Foreign Office, Rightist police immediately began questioning servants, secretaries and messengers of a half-dozen British consulates in Rightist Spain. If they found the person who had tried to use Vice Consul Goodman as a pigeon to carry military secrets to the other side, they failed to announce it. But a general spy hunt was launched from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean...
...been in hot water with his students and faculty. He quarreled with Philosopher Morris Cohen, with Morris Cohen's son Felix. (Disliking Undergraduate Felix's editorials, Dr. Robinson tried vainly to keep him out of Phi Beta Kappa.) He suppressed student magazines and meetings, once belabored a dozen booing undergraduates with his umbrella...
...whole and healthy a body has great need of a brain. The vast realm of modern commercial designing has a similar need. No candidates for this cortical job in the U. S. have appeared with sounder title to it than a half-dozen recent emigrants from Germany. Their common background: the famous Bauhaus (Building House), which had an incandescent pioneering success in Germany between 1919 and 1933. To show what this background was, Manhattan's rich, responsible Museum of Modern Art last week opened the first comprehensive show of Bauhaus work yet held...
...hungry small boy to crack one walnut, or even a dozen, is no problem. But cracking walnuts in hundreds of thousands is what the California Walnut Growers' Association does, and it wanted a cracker which did not break up the meats...
Next he turned up as chief owner of Phoenix Securities Corp., whose president, Philip De Ronde, became a crony. Half-a-dozen other investment trusts landed in his pocket, including General Investment Corp.; another crony, Ernest B. Warriner, became General's president. Truster Groves used his associates to put over his deals, used one trust to buy another. The involved nature of these deals inspired one of his directors to write this spicy note: "We may seem (to you) unduly sensitive to public, or rather informed financial opinion. The reason is that those who disregarded this opinion seem...