Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corporation, and, in this case, a public service corporation, in the hands of a small group of un-responsible if not irresponsible directors. When this objectionable feature has been removed, provided the promoters are willing to comply with the new economic spirit, then the Commission will be able to tuck the huge consolidation away among the "good trusts" and hid it a successful career...
...know who writes your book reviews, and I have made no attempt to find out. I do not object to his slang or the slang of any of the rest of the staff; I enjoy it, at times, with Mr. Tuck. But I feel that you should begin at once to censor the reviewers vulgarities, for your own good. Your circulation cannot depend on your catering to people who would read with relish rather than with revolt such a passage as the following, descriptive of a very brief courtship: "hardly more than an appraising glance and a rush upstairs...
Haverford and Princeton are engaged in a nip and tuck race for the league leadership, while the University and Yale are both trying to force each other to accept the position at the bottom of the ladder...
...laborer, Mr. Williams was personnel director and vice-president of the Hydraulic Steel Company. Previous to that time he had been assistant to the president of Oberlin College and executive secretary of the Cleveland Welfare Federation. He has lectured on labor problems at the Business School and at the Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth...
...present the only Tongs fighting, are the Hip Sings, the On Leongs. Many others exist;?the Hong Tuck Tong, made up of cigar makers; the Gum Longs, of fishermen on the Sacremento river; the Gin Sin Sear, founded by Little Pete, famed Chinese badman; the Bo Sin Sear, its rival; the Suey Sings, the Juke Lums, Om Yicks, Bing Kongs. The war of 1905 brought in twelve tongs on one side, nine on the other. Remembering this, police commissioners in all cities stationed double patrols, last week, in their Chinatowns...