Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over his sketches, Bernard scribbles shorthand notes on the time of day, the type of window frames, the age or make of an automobile, and then adds tiny numbers (one for light, ten for dark) that make up his color scheme. Even months later, "I can read the notes like a book-in three minutes...
...police action" last summer, Dutch troops seized the biggest towns and richest lands of Java, deprived the republic of rule over two-thirds of Java, parts of Sumatra and all of Madura. Meanwhile the Dutch have maintained a naval blockade of the Republican area. Republican leaders suspected a Dutch scheme to whittle down the republic's size and staying power until they could impose their rule throughout Indonesia, through Dutch-controlled governments. One measure of their good faith would be the speed, or slowness, with which the touchy Dutch reopened negotiations...
Though he has publicly shown just one handmade model, Preston Tucker has somehow managed to raise over $20,000,000 to finance production of his rear-engined Tucker '48 (TIME, July 7 et seq.). Last week, Promoter Tucker announced an ingenious scheme (which the SEC is carefully watching) to raise millions more. He wanted to sell radios, seat covers and other extra accessories to prospective car buyers for $270 a set. They could take delivery in six weeks or wait until their cars are delivered. In return for paying for the extras now, the purchasers would get a priority...
This year the Class of 1928 decided on the fireman scheme--the first time it has been used--through a simple process of elimination. "First someone suggested Russians, Cossacks I suppose he meant," Victor O. Jones '28 remarked Sunday night, "but we rejected that because of the present situation. Another thought was pirates. Firemen won probably for the nice color and the coolness...
...Jayvees back into the scheme," Bingham added, "I shall. The question is simply a financial one. We are still suffering from the suspension of athletics during the war; the football schedule still is not back to a pre-war level...