Word: enough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good friend, the French surrealist poet, André Bréton, gave it to one of Trotsky's secretaries to type. Léon Trotsky chanced to see a copy of the letter on the secretary's desk, and before he could stop himself, he had read enough to get very angry at Rivera's un-revolutionary and disloyal words. Trotsky made some remarks about Rivera. Rivera found the remarks "unacceptable." Trotsky dispatched a friend to Rivera with 200 pesos ($40) as rent, so as to be free of obligation. Without indicating whether he thought that...
...back as 1935, when Japan tried to corner enough of China's silver currency to control her trade, China cleverly countered by withdrawing silver as legal tender and issuing notes which could be of no use to Japan...
That was not necessary. But one night last week, in the Nicollet Hotel's ballroom, Conductor Mitropoulos and his men played a concert of musical burlesques and waltzes by Johann Strauss. Then, sure enough, they did pass the hat-to some 400 of Minneapolis' solider citizens. Into it dropped $20,000 and promises that the Minneapolis Symphony's annual guarantee fund of $130,000 would be fully subscribed for the next two years...
...golf par means the hypothetical number of strokes required to play a hole perfectly. For most 18-hole golf courses par (for men) ranges from 70 to 72.* A decade ago, when Supergolfers Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen dominated U. S. fairways, four par rounds were good enough to win almost any tournament. Last week, when this year's troupe of top-notch U. S. golf professionals concluded their winter trek around the "grapefruit circuit," the scores they whacked into the record books conclusively proved that par has lost its meaning...
...jawed Charles G. Guth became a vice president of Loft, Inc. in 1929, immediately began gunning for control of the $13,000,000 candy-&-restaurant chain. At the 1930 stockholders' meeting, a police cordon was needed to keep the scrap verbal. That year Charles Guth collected enough proxies to make himself president. In 1935, embattled President Guth resigned. Instead of ending, the Guth-Loft squabble thereupon entered a new and noisier phase...