Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student who had enjoyed the college education turned out to be a genius, with a scheme for a new form of paint drier. If he could finance his invention, all concerned could become rich:-- wherefore the idea for a new kind of business, the American Promoting Company, whose aim it was to finance indigent men of genius...
...Herman Bundesen. The present clinic charges a nominal fee, and thus avoids the necessity of a city license. It is reported that the legal department of the city administration is now at work on an opinion as to whether or not the clinic may operate under the new scheme...
...District Court bench in the Federal Building at Los Angeles, and listened to the beginnings of US. v. the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. (dominated by Mr. Doheny). There came before him: Lawyer Owen J. Roberts, for the plaintiff, who said he would show that the leases constituted a scheme between Messrs. Fall and Doheny, furtively and illegally contrived, and should therefore be canceled. Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, for the Doheny interests, who said he would show that no thought of profiteering lurked in the minds of Messrs. Fall and Doheny, but only a desire on Mr. Fall...
Nothing can any more be called impossible. The mirage of Ponce de Leon may be real after all, and a mere stop in a larger scheme. Daedalus and learus were myths until the Wright brothers clothed them in fact. And Julos Verne in his day was thought a spinner of idle fancies. Who knows but Karel Capek may prove a seer, and President Lowell realize his dream of "synthetic Freshmen...
Defense: Careful scrutiny "in conjunction with the Dominions, the far-reaching commitments and implications of the scheme recently put forward at Geneva...