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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simultaneously Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, Yale lecturer, promoter of Avon Old Farms, announced that, sorry as he was to see Pedagog French leave Yale, he was glad to get him at Avon. Said Dr. Canby: "In accepting the Provostship of Avon, he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher Snubbed | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

By the shores of Lake Cayuga stands Cornell, partly on a low plateau deeply serrated by close-wooded hollows. The process of erosion has done well by the university, for Cornell's ravines are a joy to her poetasters, a convenience to her cavaliers, a laboratory for her scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cornell the Beautiful | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

One day in 1925 troubled directors of Trumbull Steel Co. sat around a table and wondered where they could get money enough to put their wavering company firmly on its feet. They had been sitting for a long time without finding a way out of their difficulties when, miraculously, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Catalyst in Steel | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Thus did Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, a stranger to steel men, enter a business which was no less strange to him. Once in, he stayed in; acquired a controlling interest in many another steel company; created one of those vague but formidable entities known as an interest. Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Catalyst in Steel | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Constituents of Republic Steel Co. are Republic Iron & Steel Co., Central Alloy Steel Corp., Donner Steel Co., Inc., Bourne-Fuller Co., Trumbull Cliffs Furnace Co. and their subsidiaries. Outstanding statistics (approximate):

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Catalyst in Steel | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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