Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the sticking plaster, his right eye still clamped with a firm grip his internationally famed monocle. As he entrained at London the Foreign Secretary's left arm clamped with equal firmness a copy of British Foreign Secretaries, a study of eleven statesmen from...
Primo de Rivera, bullnecked, florid, paunchy, inflexible, replied by sending a circular note of reprimand to Opposition news paper editors: "The Government shall defend its firm and irrevocable resolve, already taken, and it shall not permit any opposition designed to distract, alienate or misinform public opinion, which in the majority has accepted this solution as the best offered in the exercise of the dictatorship under the Government's exclusive responsibility to country and King...
...CRIMSON remains firm in its belief that the custom of "eating around" is on the decline. The proposal which it backed may not have been the correct one, it is obviously not the popular one. It was, nevertheless, an attempt and as such cannot be considered futile. Only by investigation will better conditions be reached. Failure in one experiment does not prophesy failure...
...Harvard Board of Overseers and President of the Board of the Northern Pacific Railroad; T. W. Lamont '92 of J. P. Morgan and Company; J. P. Morgan '89 of J. P. Morgan and Company; James Simpson, President of Marshall Field and Company; H. N. Straus '03 of the firm of R. H. Macy and Company; and Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Company...
...asked to do so. It will supply information, if asked, as to the best broom, or the cheapest broom, or the broom that is the best value for the money. Or it will buy a particular, specified broom it will buy a specified broom from a specified firm. If not otherwise instructed, it will use its best judgment in buying brooms. It will arrange to have salesmen call on the department with sample brooms for selection. It will have brooms sent on trial. It will advise department heads and secretaries where they themselves can go and select their broom...