Word: trying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what was the important part of a lecture or a chapter. The course had taught him how to get down to work and how to organize a disturbing disarray of dates and names in an orderly sequence. Perhaps most important of all, the endless succession of weekly, bi-weekly, tri-weekly "quizzes" had taught him of necessity how to pass tests; even now, whenever he starts writing an exam Vag thinks of another sentence of that same lecturer: "In an hour examination, gentlemen, time is of the essence." Yes, he really owed a lot to that course...
...idea: a pool of investment trusts to buy some of these British enterprises, perhaps sell them to the public. Quinn pointed to the pool Tri-Continental had formed last spring (TIME, May 20) that bought and later partly distributed the shares of great Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp. But the idea was older than that. When William Orville Douglas was chairman of SEC and Jerome Frank was his running mate, the U. S. economy was stagnating for want of new capital investment. The investment bankers, having no capital to speak of, were taking only seasoned issues they could retail...
...after block of listed issues, one shrewd Wall Streeter watched with interest, figured it would soon be the turn of the unlisted items. How could they be turned into dollars? He had a plan. His name: Cyril J. C. Quinn. His address: Wall Street's $42,590,000 Tri-Continental Corp., an investment trust affiliated with the late Earle Bailie's banking house of J. & W. Seligman...
...League requirements would have to be modeled after the much neglected Tri-Presidents' agreement, and here for the last time Harvard could write her own ticket-thereafter, she would be one of a group of equals. The strict code would find willing acceptance among enthusiastic colleges; even Pennsylvania and Cornell might agree to do an about face and become suitable Ivy bedfellows...
...were "appeasement" groups in Egypt and certainly a fifth column. There were, in fact, so many Italian nationals (60,000) that the British announced they would have to be deported to India in batches of 250. As the week's international shocker arrived with announcement of the new tri-power Axis military pact, control of Egypt, the 100 miles of the Suez Canal and its outlets became increasingly important. In Axis hands, the Canal could allow Italian and Japanese Fleets to join in the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific...