Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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10-ft. Yacht. Despite the squeeze, hardly any banker is going to be beastly to a borrower. Reason: a great change has swept over U.S. banking. The banker whose thin lips seemed to be permanently fixed in a no has been succeeded by the banker with a neighborly twinkle in...
"I Botched It Up." The fixed contestants solemnly played along with the cheap little travesty. Labor Organizer Richard Jackman, built up on Twenty One as a workingman's Jimmy Stewart, won $24,500 and pangs of conscience, settled for $15,000 when told by Enright that more "would throw...
A good way to hold down prizes was to restrict the points rolled up by any fixed winner. One indignant Twenty One veteran, greying Mrs. Rose Leibbrand, executive director of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, explained how it was done. Just before showtime Producer...
At present no major institution appears ready to adopt the four-quarter program. From secondary and prep schools to colleges, parents and students seem set against it; and where the pressure of admissions permits the institution to dictate terms, the problem of fixed income from endowment and of success based...
Like other forms of education, learning to fly is not inexpensive. Even though the Club owns one plane and rents its other at low rates, the expenses--of frequent mechanical check-ups, of hanger space and steep insurance rates--add up. The yearly Club membership fee is $45. Each hour...