Word: line
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very bottom of the money market, was lagging far behind the general trend toward higher and higher interest rates. Theoretically an index to prevailing conditions, the 5% rediscount rate was actually an exception to them. That is why Mr. Warburg termed the rate "grotesque . . . out of line...
...been cruel to the heavy. With dress designers concentrating on eliminating all the differences between the shadow cast by a woman and the shadow cast by a barber's pole, women of generous poundage have been consistently unfortunate. Present fashion forecasts, it is true, predict that the straight line will this year make some concessions to the curve. But even such contours as may be established will probably be willowy rather than rotund, graceful rather than pronounced...
Soon dissension developed. The partners could not agree on sales-methods. They began to build stationary engines as a kind of side line to keep themselves in business until their automobile was perfected. While they were arguing, others were acting. Ford had a car at $850. There was a Cadillac at $750 and an Oldsmobile at $650. But the Buick was a good car. It won competitive tests. Trade papers praised it. At last orders began to come in. Sales were rising; profits were in sight. But production costs increased also, made necessary another reorganization, another influx of capital...
...continued Miss Gray, "and as for Harvard men.--Hot dog! Don't they have simply wonderful football teams there! I often go to the Harvard-Yale game, and I cheer for Harvard, too. I've always wanted to run down onto the field and carry the pigskin through that line of Blue, myself. I'll bet I could shake off those tacklers...
Just as for every soldier "in the front line trenches" there must be three or four behind the lines in training or reserve, so in every business organization, for every man who is actually out in the field selling, there must be other employees in the branch or home office...