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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English Synonym for what U. S. Citizens mean by "private school...
...word that shocked Critic Stevens was a Latin-derived synonym for stage-hackneyed Sex-a synonym seldom heard outside biology. TIME approved the word's scientific quality and doubts that the most prurient-minded of Victorian butlers would have suspected what was meant...
Buick company, cornerstone of General Motors, was the first automobile company Mr. Chrysler ever took in hand. He took it in hand in 1911 and had it until 1919. He jacked up its production from 40 cars per day to 550; established its name as a synonym for soundness; increased the Buick profits to 50 millions per annum. During William Crapo Durant's second regime in General Motors (1915-20), Walter P. Chrysler's touch was felt in all General Motors shops, for he was in charge of all General Motors production. But for his difference...
...Author. Synonym of biography in the new manner, Strachey takes his work far more seriously than the host of whippersnappers who have travestied his methods in the six years since Queen Victoria was published. Three years' solid work expended on that book resulted in what the author called "suffering from mental prostration"-horrible to consider what effect the present more brilliant volume will have...
...Sporting synonym...