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George A. Kublin of the Kansas City Board of Trade estimated that the carry-over on next July 1 would be only 130,000,000 bushels. (The Department of Agriculture put it at 146,000,000.) "Anything smaller than a 235,000,000-bushel carry-over," Kublin warned, "is reckless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Reckless | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...More reckless spirits favor a type of poker known as "the fiery cross." No hand here comes cheaper than a flush, which generally gets flushed where it belongs. With practically every card in the deck wild, so are the players, who also profess proficiency in the double cut and the under-arm shift...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...outlining the purposes and advantages of NSA. What actually confronted students was a combination of the two, both under the auspices of the Council, and both phrased in such a way as to insinuate that there was but one choice. NSA is too worthy a project to receive such reckless and unpolitic treatment, especially when it involves crucial undergraduate support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.S.A.F.U. | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

...other team (coaches scouting Harvard sit on the 45-yard line in the colonnade) and take down as many plays and defensive formations of the future opponent as they can. "We also look for individual traits," Chief adds, "such as a guard that charges high or a reckless...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Jayvees Always Fight For Boston | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

...young fashion scouts, and both try to vary their pictures of blankly beautiful models with portraits of society women. Both are fawned over by publicity-hungry manufacturers. But they resent being taken for twins. Their differences are largely those that set apart two strong-minded women of ruthless, sometimes reckless taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Stylocrats | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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