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...Krieger's as mediocre as Fuller maintains, our conclusion is that Dartmouth is playing the sucker; for Bob annually pays his college bills and has money in the bank left over from funds unknown...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

...these Wendell Willkie casts an interested' but realistic eye. Stamped with anti-New Deal mark, he is still too much of a liberal to suit old-line Republicans. When friends ask him whether he intends to be a candidate he answers, "Wouldn't I be a sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Indiana Advocate | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...shares at 30. He quoted again two points down and his bid was snatched at 28. He continued dropping his price, but like a hungry school of fish snatching at fat grubs, sellers snatched at his bids all the way down to 14. Then, fussed at playing sucker to his own game, he traded in and out at around 15 to stabilize his market. The bears let up. Broker Sykes's face was red. The traders knew, although he didn't, that Spalding's new preferred had been offered at 16 (when issued) in the over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Improper Indignity | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Average Golfer shoots 85 to 100; is tickled pink if he pars two or three holes in an afternoon; he is the mainstay of all golf (Continued on p. 8) clubs and courses; he is generally a sucker for some professional, and without his support the professional golfer would disappear like the famous snowball in Hades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...definite evil. With a request to other Harvard publications to refuse tutoring school advertisements the Cambridge daily formally declared war on the system in general. . . . Not content with discreet announcements, high pressure advertising is brought into use (but the tutoring schools) inferring that he who studies is a sucker and which includes a cocktail party for freshmen. . . . Having as an example the mild form of the system as it exists here and at New Haven the editorial board feels that these conditions could and should be eliminated. But it might be pointed out that as long as the only weapons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUTORING TROUBLES | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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