Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The sentences were no heavier because the bankers concealed no assets, gave up their entire personal property, some $223,000, for the benefit of the depositors. Moreover it was acknowledged that the junior partners, although guilty parties, had gained little or nothing personally from the crash which was attributed mainly...
The day is not far off when the casual motorist in New England will have a new joy. He will drive up to a handsome colonial edifice set in a little park plot with poplar trees about it and there he will satisfy both his machine and himself. For the...
When the first call goes through, the event will mark not only a noteworthy technical achievement. It will be even more likely to nourish financial hopes among holders of telephone company stocks. All summer long A. T. & T. stock, usually conservative in its behavior, has been booming along in the...
Fortnight ago Willard Huntingdon Wright, more famed as "S. S. Van Dine," detective story writer, gave up a murder case because it was outside his jurisdiction as Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, N. J. Last week the mystery was taken up by John D. Coughlin, lately ousted as chief...
Then up rose Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Leo R. C. Mitchell to meet Big Helen Wills and Edith Cross. Never was there a clearer demonstration that doubles play is a different game from singles, a game about which Big Helen Wills still has a lot to learn. The English ladies...