Word: partner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every so often a tired rider would wheel out of the pack or "jam," dis- mount, reach for food, seek his bed and sleep. His partner would be waiting, mounted, at the trackside, when he came; would pump off, catch the pack, then circle, circle, circle until hunger and fatigue brought his turn to lie down...
...compulsory sprints, for points. And bored spectators would sometimes get the announcer's ear, offer $20, $100, to the winner of a special sprint. Megaphoned to, the riders would tense, dart away, tear over the line, then drop into the slower, mile-devour- ing pace while the winner's partner collected the prize money...
Brandeis. Miss Susan Brandeis, Manhattan, was educated at Bryn Mawr College, schooled in law at Chicago University. She is third partner in the law firm of Kirsch, Edelman and Brandeis. She scorns feminine foibles in dress and manner, works hard, studies harder, plays little. On levity, on publicity, she pours disdain. She sits late, rises early. As special assistant district attorney she prosecuted anti-trust cases for the State of New York. "My daughter," says Justice Brandeis, "is a self-made...
...American commercial vessels pay toll. During President Taft's Administration a law was passed exempting U. S. vessels in coastwise trade from toll, but Great Britain objected that this was a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty under which the U. S., formerly a partner in the canal business with Great Britain, acquired sole rights in the project and promised equal treatment to "all nations." Elihu Root, then a Senator, held that the law violated our treaty promise. President Wilson and Ambassador Page took the same attitude. In the Spring of 1914. the President asked that...
Rest from his labors has come to Walter Johnson (TIME, Sept. 22), aging ace of baseball pitchers. Last week, he and a partner acquired the Oakland (Calif.) club of the Pacific Coast League. In the spring Johnson will embark no more on stormy big league seas with the world's champion Washington Senators, but will pitch Oakland's three big opening games and then settle back, in the warm California sunshine, to grow old in profitable leisure...