Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time of the year when the large majority of those interested will have ample leisure to study the situation. The recent additions to the General Motors family will present a problem such as to delight the hearts of conscientious brand spotters, but where are they to fit in the scheme of things? Obviously they overlap the price classes of other members of this quality group and old heads engaged in the business of selling cars as well as spotting them will be hard put to it explaining just why one is better than another. Things have gotten so fine that...
...look at this Young scheme. Germany offers 50. Allies ask 100. Young says G. will give 50 and the A will get 100. Who pays the difference? The I. B* * * from profits. Who pays the profits? The customers. Who are the customers? The bondbuyers. Who are the bondbuyers...
...said that if he could have a six-month option, he would see what could be done. He consulted mechanical engineers, notably Dr. Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia. He cabled to Inventor Edison, who was having a triumph in Paris: "Has power transmission reached such development that in your judgment scheme practicable...
...example, there is the matter of the "high table" which is promised for the Master and tutors. One wonders what place in the social scheme these faculty tables will occupy. Used as a permanent separation in the dining hall the "high table" might, as the CRIMSON has before pointed out, usurp a desirable contact between preceptor and student. But other use of the "high tables" could be made besides one that follows the Oxford-Cambridge idea of segregation of tutors and students. Occasional use of the "high table" as a gathering place of the House resident and non-resident tutors...
...taken in by quackery, charlatanism and thimble-rigging.* I am always anxious not to irritate people unnecessarily, so I hereby announce that I will, for the future, in this election, drop the word charlatan and use instead the word 'cheapjack' as applied to Lloyd George's scheme...