Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more interest in the new title than in the new peeress who bore it. By Royal decree, Mrs. Broughton became Cara, Baroness Fairhaven, in honor of the fishing village on Buzzard's Bay, Mass., where her father was born. British heraldic experts said that, though many a British peer has chosen for his title the name of a foreign place-viz., Kitchener of Khartoum (Egypt), Byng of Vimy (France), Napier of Magdala (Abyssinia)-Lady Fairhaven is the first to have a title of U. S. extraction...
...Packard refers to the British press as "Government and Peer-subsidized." Will TIME please devote the necessary ½ of an inch of space to a list of the U. S. A. newspapers which are not at the heel of one or other of your political parties...
...have told them over and over that since France and Italy owe them and they owe us, the only result of "canceling debts all round" would be to leave the United States standing the whole loss. They can never see it that way! Their Government and their Peer-subsidized press has got them as hypnotized on that point as a basketful of baby rabbits under the eye of an Indian snake charmer. Let them keep quiet and pay what they owe- which is what they always pretend that they are doing. SITWELL R. PACKARD...
...last year, Yale's ten brightest Seniors sat in Connecticut Hall scribbling answers to a Harvard English examination. They could smoke, but honor bound them not to speak, peer or signal. At the same time Harvard's "ten brightest" took the same examination under like conditions in Cambridge. The Harvard men made the highest marks and thereby won a "brain contest" originated and financed-with a foundation of $125,000-by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of Harvard's President. The victors' spoils were $5,000 worth of books (TIME...
...controls through his Trans-America Corp. the 117-year-old Bank of America National Assn., resources $416,000,000. Active, persistent is the rumor that it is to be acquired by the 52-year-old Chase National Bank, resources $1,430,000,000. The merged institution would be the peer, in size, of the National City Bank of New York, although not of the new Guaranty Trust Co.-National Bank of Commerce combination...