Word: forks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 2.29 points to 180.61 in the heaviest selling in weeks. But bankers doubted whether FRB's action would tighten credit much. There was too much money in circulation and too many big non-bank lenders, e.g., insurance companies, ready to fork out cash. New York's National City Bank Monthly Letter said that a practical banker might well ask: "Why crack down on us so that our competitors can take the business...
...left his grandfather's Calvinistic Church, had had a look in at Catholicism and had finally joined the Episcopal Church. As an acolyte in cassock and surplice he regularly served at Mass. But now he had turned to Far Eastern mysticism. He became fascinated with a fork-bearded Russian theosophist named Nicholas Roerich, and later, when he became Secretary of Commerce, sent Roerich to Outer Mongolia to do research in grasses. Roerich was the "Guru" (Spiritual Leader) to whom the now famous "Dear Guru" letters, full of mystical fiddle-faddle, were written. Wallace has never either admitted or denied...
...matter how hard the reporters tried, he said, "I am not going to engage in Red-baiting . . ." That still left one interesting question: Did Wallace write (in 1934) the fawning, fantastic Guru letters, full of schoolboy mysticism and "secret" pet names, to the late Nicholas Roerich, a fork-bearded Russian artist, explorer, and cultist (TIME, Dec. 29)? For months Columnist Westbrook Pegler had been trying to provoke a yes or no from Wallace...
Introduction of new officers, awards, and a round of games on the Quadrangle featured Radcliffe's annual A.A. Field Day program yesterday, though to half a hundred 'Cliffedwellers, the biggest athletic event of the afternoon consisted of twisting platefuls of spaghetti around a small wooden fork at the Field House supper...
...home, to Rockefeller Center in his black Cadillac, and play practical jokes on his family and friends. Once he arranged to have a rubber knife put at his wife's place at a dinner party, was furious when she found the meat tender enough to cut with a fork, and didn...