Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impatient betters. Suddenly a batch of tickets was poked back through the window and an irate customer demanded that he be given what he had asked for-five tickets on No. 6, not No. 5. Because the tickets had been punched out and recorded, Lonnie Gray was thus stuck with a $50 bet on a rank outsider that no one else seemed to want. And, because he had to get ready for the next race, he was not even going to see Bright Mark run. If Bright Mark had actually lost, he would not only have done Lonnie...
...representatives of the National Co-operative Council, an association of 51 agricultural co-operative groups with a membership of 1,500,000 farmers. Out of the meeting grew several policies, one of which was an agreement by the chain stores to stage special sales campaigns whenever the farmers were stuck with a bona fide surplus of any crop...
...University had disregarded the spirit of the law and stuck to the letter, it might have served its won interest; for the process by which locals can force contracts from employers is long and cumbersome. Moreover, the independent, "inside" union has made great strides in membership, and has clearly shown that it would be less exacting than the American Federation of Labor. But Harvard has chosen to discard technicalities and to make the kind of settlement the majority of the dining-hall workers desired. For this it is to be commended...
...Moore, founder of Manning, Maxwell & Moore, who took Brady on as a cub salesman in 1879 when the company was only a jobber for railroad supplies, sent Diamond Jim out on the road with instructions to spend all the money necessary to make customers like him. Diamond Jim stuck to this tenet through the panic of the middle nineties with such success that spending money to make money has been the Manning, Maxwell & Moore system to lick depressions ever since...
...Novelist Thomas Wolfe dedicated his Of Time and the River to Scribner's Editor Maxwell Perkins who launched him on his career. The dedication called "Max" Perkins "a great editor and a brave and honest man, who stuck to the author of this book through times of bitter hopelessness and doubt and would not let him give way to his own despair," included a hope that the work was worthy of the devotion of "a dauntless and unshaken friend," and closed with a confession that the book would never have been written without it. Last week Thomas Wolfe, announcing...