Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just circled the world in 3 days, 19 hr. 8 min. 10 sec., but because he had made but one previous speech in his life. "There is one thing about this flight that I would like everyone to know," he blurted at last. "It was in no way a stunt. It was the carrying out of a careful plan, and it functioned because it was carefully planned. We who did it are entitled to no particular credit. . . . Any one of the airline pilots of this nation . . . could have done the same thing...
...seven years from an obscure Tuberculosis & Health Association worker to the front rank of Federal officialdom is one of the major phenomena of the New Deal. It could not have been done by a character less elastic and resilient. He has not let his prodigious capacity for work stunt his private life. He likes par ties on Long Island, weekends at Sara toga, shirtsleeve poker with Jesse Jones & cronies. His little house in Georgetown, which he took to be near James Roosevelt, has been more of a sleeping place than a home to him since his second wife died last...
...cigaret companies could pass this on to the consumer. Philip Morris to maintain its fixed price policy must either absorb the tax or reduce its famed dealer profit margin. So far the dealer has either absorbed it or charged 16?. Philip Morris may therefore be forced to use a stunt it tried before-giving dealers one pack free with every carton they buy, thus compensating the reduced profit margin...
...this "round shouldered, thick-thighed" champion to give them their real money's worth? If the portrait is as foul as she says it is, the Public will be pleased; if it flatters her, the Public will be certain all this court to-do is just another cheap stunt to get cheaper publicity for her next movie, which is certain to be a flop. One of the Public...
Started as a circulation stunt, the Golden Gloves boosted not only the number of News readers but the standard of amateur boxing as well. By dividing all the fighters who had the desire and the necessary 25? to become amateur boxers into two classes (sub-novice and open), the Daily News Athletic Association did away with the common practice of matching tough but inexperienced youngsters with ring-wise opponents according to the luck of the draw. Today, almost every city in the U. S. has its Golden Gloves tournament, which stretches over a six-week period from the first neighborhood...