Word: outbidding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defeat but by setting up a more-abundant-life European federation into which any German regime save the Nazis would be welcome. This amounts to inviting a revolution by the German people or a coup d'etat at Berlin, and suddenly at Ankara the Nazi hierarchy tried to outbid the Anglo-French formula of peacefully proffered federation by proffering one of its own, with a sword...
Businessmen flinched at the prospect of seeing the Government step into railroads as it has into Power. But soon Wall Street learned that any investment houses which wanted to hurry and outbid the Government, float equipment trusts of their own at low interest rates, would receive the New Deal's blessing and perhaps insurance for their money...
Manhattanites were interested but not immediately ecstatic. Though the exhibition was boldly billed "Art of Tomorrow" to outbid the Museum of Modern Art's "Art in Our Time," a few critics meanly suggested that it was actually art of the past. Curator Hilla Rebay, her blue eyes ablaze, rose to this with two good observations and one transcendental line...
...finally been struck by Portuguese Dictator António Oscar de Fragoso Carmona not with Hitler but with Chamberlain. The Germans had offered to sell armaments to Portugal and make immediate deliveries, but on barter terms-Portugal would have had to pay promptly in goods. The British outbid the Germans by offering Portugal armaments on credit-the sort of "loan" to a useful little ally which in Europe is often simply not repaid...
Just as baseball managers try to outbid one another for fine pitchers and hitters, so orchestral managers try to outbid one another for champion piccolo players and contrabassoonists. The violin and the cello are commonly placed among the noblest of musical instruments, but good violinists and cellists bring only a fair figure (average salary: about $80 a week). Most strenuous bidding frequently takes place over first-class oboists and horn players. Fiddlers are the symphonic world's plentiful proletariat. But fine horn players are rarer than fine conductors, and often make a bigger difference to the sound...