Word: setback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playing much the same game as it displayed last Friday against B. U., the Harvard basketball team last night gave the M. I. T. quintet its first setback of the season by a 33 to 24 score...
...Sweringen board. Master Atterbury made the first when he captured a valuable pawn, the Pittsburgh and West Virginia. His Pennroad Corp. bought for $50.000,000 from Frank E. and Charles E. Taplin the controlling interest in the road. The loss of this key road is a setback to the Van Sweringen merger plans, which does not displease the Brothers Taplin, arch-enemies of the Brothers Van Sweringen. The sale also means that the Taplins have given up their aspirations for a Great Lakes-Atlantic seaboard system. Two days later the Brothers Van Sweringen gathered in a desirable pawn themselves...
...architect, John L. Kingston of Warren & Whetmore, started with the idea of a good sized building constructed, theoretically, high up in the air. Then he planned downward to the street level, spreading lower stories to get the "setback" effect which gives tall buildings the maximum of light...
Officials. In Mrs. Willebrandt's mind more to be condemned than the agents have been Washington officials in charge of Prohibition enforcement. Said she: "It will take many a day for law enforcement to recover from the setback it suffered under General Lincoln Andrews. . . . He multiplied publicity, created a public psychology in his own favor . . . began to put in office men who were temperamentally and in every other way unfitted for the task. His notorious appointments . . . Roscoe Harper . . . Frank Hale. . .Major Walton Green . . . Ned M. Green. . . . I refuse to believe that out of our 100,000,000 population...
...Only setback to steady United Drug prosperity came in the post-War deflation in which Mr. Liggett's company was threatened with insolvency. At this date, however, he had many a Rexall agent throughout the country and these Rexall agents, loyal, raised $1,500,000, helped him through the deflation period. Last year Drug, Inc. had a net income (11 months...