Word: probed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Investment trusts have had their own ups & downs. In the '203 they grew to a $7 billion business which the 1929 crash almost wiped out. Even some that survived were guilty of sharp practices and management abuses which brought on a five-year investigation by the SEC. The probe resulted in the Investment Company Act of 1940, that put investment companies under rigorous SEC supervision...
...York Harvard Club is one of ten exclusive social and athletic clubs which are being investigated in the current New York City probe of alleged theater ticket scalping. Among the other clubs implicated are the Yale, Princeton and Columbia clubs...
...class is selecting an investigating committee which will also act as a tentative staff for the yearbook. This committee will probe the cost of the yearbook and find out how much financial support the class can obtain from the College...
...into the reader's mind." Hadden was also highly competitive and vastly ambitious: he planned to make a million dollars by the time he was thirty. But once he has said this much, Busch proceeds to embellish rather than to develop his story. And his occasional efforts to probe deep frequently border on the ridiculous. "The urgency of Hadden's impulse toward life," he writes, "started with his original struggle to stay alive in the first place." This "struggle" took place when "little Hadden" was between one and six weeks old, and was brought about by his premature birth. "Ever...
...more advanced students of Lifemanship, Potter offers the Question Gambit and the "What a Pity" Probe, but for all-round utility, he recommends "plonking." Writes Potter: "If you have nothing to say-or, rather, something extremely stupid and obvious-say it, but in a plonking tone of voice-that is, roundly, wisely, and dogmatically; or take up and repeat with slight variation, in this tone of voice, the last phrase of the speaker." Thus...