Word: peek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What this?" thought he. And like the good reporter that he was, he took a peek into the forbidden territory. And there on the practice field was the entire Yale squad busy at work on fundamentals, pass defense, assignments. Thus was conceived the story that Yale hasn't yet forgotten...
...tale went on. At the White House, President Roosevelt was supposed to have suggested that General Johnson go to Europe to study recovery measures. The General rapped back: "You're trying to ease me out like George Peek." Then he stalked angrily back to his office. Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson, his onetime stenographer but now his ultraloyal assistant and shadow at NRA headquarters, urged him to make a "dramatic exit," for Business would surely rally to him if he did so. So the General dictated a two-and-a-half page letter. By midnight it was done...
Queensway has cost nearly $40,000,000 and taken nine years to build. Curiosity among Britons to see its insides has been phenomenal. They have bought over $35,000 worth of tickets entitling them to preview peeks. This peek-money has gone to hospitals in Liverpool and Birkenhead, famed cities which face each other across the River Mersey and have now been connected by glamorous Queensway...
...railway labor bill he might approve; Huey Long's farm mortgage moratorium bill he would probably veto (see p. 11). ¶The President took out a three-week old letter and read it to correspondents gathered around him. It was an account of some arithmetic done by George Peek, his Special Adviser on Foreign Trade. Mr. Peek had written that the U. S. ought to keep an exact balance sheet of its transactions with other countries, to know whether its trade was profitable. Economists have made this sensible point before. From the figures and estimates available Mr. Peek offered...
Although some of the figures were disputable estimates, all were an old story to economists. Calling attention to the $22,000,000,000 difference between value rendered and value received, Mr. Peek concluded that "our foreign trade has been cumulatively disadvantageous to us." This was something of a figure of speech, for the $22,000,000,000 does not represent a net loss. It represents money still owing to the U. S.-private investments of U. S. citizens abroad and $10,300,000,000 of war debts. Obvious, though not explicit, was the point that the President was trying...