Word: gem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brightest gem in his State's judicial crown, Judge Cardozo, a thin-nosed patrician descendant of Sephardic Jews, may be expected to bolster up the Court's fine Liberal-Conservative balance, which was jeopardized by Liberal Justice Holmes's retirement...
...little gem of a Central American revolution occurred in El Salvador last week. There were no obscure causes. The government of President Arturo Araujo, in its anxiety to economize,* had simply forgotten to pay the army officers' salaries for three months. Chief of Salvadorean Police was President Araujo's brother-in-law. The police were paid. The police remained loyal...
...putting-out system' is the nearest thing in the English language to what is so well expressed by the French 'coup d'etat,'" is a gem of the student howlers which members of the History Department have encountered in recent years. History is considered the most fertile field in which to find such "boners," a fact that is well testified to by some of the following...
...news section thoroughly covered the State, the Nation and the world. Every intermountain town of importance had its Anaconda Standard bureau. It was like a metropolitan gem set in a mountain wasteland. The finest mechanical equipment was bought. In the early days of the Mergenthaler linotype machine, the Anaconda Standard at one time had more of them in operation than had any Manhattan daily. When Richard F. Outcault's "Yellow Kid" ushered colored comics into the Manhattan field, Publisher Daly had to have some, sent for Thorndyke, Trowbridge, Loomis, then three of the highest-priced newspaper artists...
...executive committee, and before that head of AutoStrop Safety-Razor Co. He is active in the company's new management. With long experience as an inventor and razor technician he can face such problems as arose last month when American Safety Razor Corp. put a new Gem on the market. Banker John Edward Aldred resigned last fortnight as chairman of Gillette, but remains a director. Last week it was asserted that the changes which have ended by placing Mr. Lambert in the position once held by proud King Camp Gillette, have not altered the company's banking sponsorship...