Word: setups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lott, 50, whose service with the company dates to its founding. A graduate of the University of Nebraska (Class of 1907) in electrical engineering, he got into selling 20 years ago, rose to become Motor Products' sales manager, later general manager. Where he will fit in the new setup has not been announced...
...spectacular comeback of their generation. Under the arrangement with their backers, however, they could not bequeath this potentiality in their last will & testament. Control of Midamerica reverted to Messrs. Ball & Tomlinson-principally Mr. Ball. Since neither of these gentlemen cared to cope with the discouragingly complex Van Sweringen corporate setup, they had to find a successor to Brother Oris Paxton...
Around this melancholy setup, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse has written his 45th book, a dead ringer for other Wodehouse fantasies with its collection of imbecilic gentlemen, appallingly mistaken identities, mouth-filling English slang and story that sizzles and fusses as senselessly as water spilled into hot grease. Not a humorist in an ironic or satirical sense of the term, Wodehouse gets away with comic murder by a species of inspired silliness that is funny only because it is so uninhibited and because it goes on so tirelessly. In Laughing Gas, his plot involves a transfer of personality between the child star...
Smarting under their defeat by Andover last Saturday the Yardlings face no setup in the Worcester schoolboys whose better than average team has already held Phillips Academy to a scoreless...
Question No. 13: How would a war affect stockyards' earnings? Answer: During the World War earnings of these properties [in United's new setup] were abnormally large due to contracts placed with packers for Army and Navy supplies...