Word: recoupment
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...their fundaments raised high, Debaets & Hill pedaled madly. Eleven times they zipped around the bowl, the red-shirted team pulling farther and farther ahead until finally Peden caught up with Hill from behind, and the lap was gained. A dozen times thereafter Hill or Debaets gamely started out to recoup their loss, but Peden & Letourner stuck to them like lice. The closing gun, at midnight, found Peden & Letourner winners by that single lap and 1.354 points for sprints, to the runner-up's 714 points. Peden & Letourner collected $5,000 of the $30,000 purse. Peden sped...
...culmination of a series of stories in metropolitan papers picking flaws in Harvard's football coaching regime, was one which appeared yesterday and reported proposed visits by two former coaches, in a thoroughly misleading fashion. The writer frankly intimated that the coaches had been called to recoup Harvard's failing forces before the team was submerged under avalanches from West Point, Providence, and New Haven. Misinterpretation of the facts and a false idea of what support the undergraduate owes the coach contributed to produce a journalistic abortion, typical of the press's attitude toward Harvard football this season...
...teacher, then a principal, then president of Iowa's State Agricultural College. With no newspaper experience he bought and edited the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, made money on the side from mines, steel mills, realty. Wiped out in the panic of 1893, he went to the Orient to recoup, spotted a chance in Korea where rich ore deposits were being crushed by hand, got concessions, sent for U. S. machinery. First to grow cotton in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, he unfolded one evening at the White House dinner table a glowing description of African big-game hunting which resulted...
...traditional ex-president, heavy on the national conscience, a kind of standing threat to the President of Princeton and the chief justice of the supreme court. Mr. Hoover has, in his own accounting, halved his working hours and doubled his income, and is in a good way to recoup the losses which his public service occasioned. Strangely apropos to all this seem the words of Harold Laski in the current Harper's: "This democratic elite cannot devote itself to the acquisition of power, of wealth, of authority, for these things are fatal to independence, and their quest breeds men concerned...
...collapse of General Theatres Equipment securities), Banker Pynchon has lost his mansion at Greenwich. Conn., his yachts, his millions. Shrunken security values have reduced the settlement which Pynchon creditors expect to run about 25? on the dollar, denying him the chance of saving any stake with which to recoup his fortune. Wall Street, feeling that Mr. Pynchon had failed with honor, was glad last week to hear an announcement: the brokerage firm of Mallory, Eisemann & Co. (Franklin I. Mallory, husband of Molla Bjurstedt and no kin of Mr. Pynchon; Alexander Eisemann, onetime head of Freed-Eisemann Radio Corp.) is henceforth...