Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire. He has a system: "Any time I'm in a hole, I got confidence in that fast ball." He doesn't trust curves, he says, because lots of times curves just hang, and when they hang you're sunk. With help from his Boston Braves, he won, 7 to 6. In the second game of the doubleheader, the Braves were in trouble again. Big Bill went to the rescue, and was credited with...
...resigned at being forced to cohabitate where they alone should rightfully be allowed to live. But in doing this the church does not renounce her thesis . . . but merely adapts herself . . . Hence arises the great scandal among Protestants . . . We ask Protestants to understand that the Catholic church would betray her trust if she were to proclaim . . . that error can have the same rights as truth . . . The church cannot blush for her own want of tolerance, as she asserts it in principle and applies it in practice...
Massachusetts Investors Trust, largest Ward stockholder (104,000 shares), finally decided last week that it was time to move. It sent two of its trustees to Chicago to investigate. "We are very much disturbed," said Chairman Merrill Griswold, "that some of [Ward's] directors, out of what seems to be a mistaken sense of loyalty to their oldtime associate, Mr. Avery, are overlooking their duties to the general stockholder...
Around Manhattan's Title Guarantee & Trust Co., William Benjamin seemed to be a favored character. As head of a war plant (Metropolitan Machine Shops, Inc., maker of machine parts and auto jacks), he borrowed $99,970 from the bank, without very close questioning. When Benjamin later confessed to frauds totaling $493,000 (and went to Sing Sing), Title Guarantee expressed shock, but it also gave off embarrassed sighs of relief. Alone among Benjamin's big creditors, Title Guarantee had been repaid in full...
...leaven its solid fare of political and artistic comment, London's socialist New Statesman and Nation conducts weekly "competitions" in epigrams, limericks, etc. Recently readers were asked to play a game originated by Philosopher Bertrand Russell. On BBC's Brains Trust program (Britain's sprightly Town Meeting of the Air), he had humorously conjugated an "irregular verb" as "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool...