Word: enigma
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...prime current enigma is whether bankers are unwilling to loan money to businessmen or whether businessmen are unwilling to borrow from bankers. While this enigma was agitating the President (see col. 3), the cheerful news appeared that businessmen borrowed $114,000,000 more last week than they had the week before. This healthy spurt in commercial loans came on top of two months of slow expansion...
Madder and more original than most of her contemporaries, Mme Schiaparelli is the one to whom the word "genius" is applied most often. Even to her intimate friends she remains an enigma. Her great-great-grandmother was an Egyptian. Her Italian father was dean of the University of Rome, a professor of oriental lore, an authority on Sanskrit and old coins. Her uncle, Astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. discovered the canals on Mars. Elsa Schiaparelli was born in Rome, educated in Switzerland and England where she married a Polish gentleman and moved to New York. There she lived on 9th Street, worked...
...that there are weaknesses to be eradicated. The outfield wasn't up to its usual fielding standard--and the infield is not airtight yet, especially around second base. But Ben Prouty at second is a definite improvement, and little Mike Hovenanian may be the answer to the short stop enigma. That middle sack has been a problem all year. At bat things looked a lot better, with the Mitchelimen hitting three pitchers for 13 hits...
...fact established by unpleasant experience. The epidemic in the Freshman class last June so taxed Stillman that many were forced to stay in their rooms. If a slight contagious cold fills the Infirmary to overcrowding, what it will do in the face of a more serious condition is an enigma...
Elgar's fame as a composer reached London by way of Germany. The Dream of Gerontius had been given in the provinces but no one thought to call it a masterpiece until Conductor Hans Richter presented it in Düsseldorf and Richard Strauss acclaimed it. The Enigma Variations, Elgar's best-known symphonic work, was Richter's piece de resistance when he toured England in 1899. Five years later Elgar was knighted and the new King Edward pronounced Pomp and Circumstance "a very fine...