Word: memoranda
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Thoroughly wedded to his work, Artist Saint is in his early 50's, likes to give studio visitors bits of brightly colored glass, potters nervously about his workrooms with sparse reddish hair on end and reddish-grey beard wagging, continuously jots down memoranda, hopes someday to "write the whole Bible in living colors," works with unceasing self-criticism to see that his craftsmanship is perfect, his meanings clear. With true medieval literalism, Artist Saint likes to use genuine prodigals for his Prodigal Sons, combs missions for repentant sinners when one is needed for a window...
...that the winner of a bout should be determined in case of a tie between the two judges, not by the tie-breaking vote of the referee, but by totalling the points scored by each judge from round to round of the bout. These notes, how- ever, are personal memoranda taken by each judge at his own option merely to assist him in casting an impersonal vote, according to the N.C.A.A. and according to customary usage...
...Business to Government history. Banker Morgan and his partners were left lolling on the sidelines while a parade of distinguished ghosts marched by the Committee table. One by one the following leaders of 1914-17 were summoned from their graves, were made to testify through their letters, diaries, memoirs, memoranda, were charged in effect as follows...
...disclosures came in a book Powerful America* by Eugene J. Young, cable editor of the New York Times, who was fortunate in obtaining memoranda left by the late Adolph S. Ochs. On April 22, 1921, Mr. Ochs, as the potent publisher of the New York Times, was invited to breakfast at No. 10 Downing St. by Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Afterward he was shown into the office of First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Lee of Fareham, secretaries were sent out of the room, the doors were closed. As palpitating Publisher Ochs afterward recorded in his memorandum, "I left...
Nothing was said about the bond issue in the memoranda which Mr. Jones released last week. But New York Central's remaining RFC debt of $11,900,000 was extended to 1941. RFC will receive the same interest as the banks (currently 4%), and while the bank loans are still on a demand basis, the RFC loans become payable if New York Central ever defaults. Furthermore, Mr. Vanderbilt tried to patch up his spat with the RFChairman by writing: "Please accept our sincere thanks for the co-operative spirit which you have evinced in reaching a final and permanent...