Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Press's Brazil Manager C. Arthur Powell in Editor & Publisher of last fortnight. Long trained as correspondent for the Associated Press in Havana until six months ago, sandy-haired Reporter Powell earned from admiring Cubans the name Car a Dura (Hard Face), is not prone to exaggerate: Worst damage ("several million dollars") suffered by the Rio newspaper plants was inflicted upon A Noite in its new 24-story building, highest in South America, which houses the United Press Bureau...
...Colgate rooters re membered with regret that their team did not look like that when Michigan State beat them not so long ago. Of the less important games, most un usual was little Lehigh's 13 to 9 victory over what is probably the worst football team that has ever represented Princeton. Midwest. Captain Hank Bruder and Fullback Reb Russell took turns carrying the ball and gained 364 yards, made 16 first downs against Indiana, won 25 to 0? a game that makes Northwestern potential Big Ten champion. Playing intersectionally, Wisconsin and Minnesota won their games. Ohio State, completing...
...post of Leader has been torture to Mr. Baldwin. Every morning, every evening the newspapers of Baron Beaverbrook, ruthless "Hearst of England," badger him to resign, give insulting reasons?the real reason being that Lord Beaverbrook wants to become Mr. Baldwin's successor. Last week was one of the worst poor Stanley has ever gone through, supported by indomitable, pious Lucy, one of the last great Victorians...
High is the code of honor on the New York Stock Exchange. Violation of this code is the worst disgrace which can overtake a member. Last week Exchange President Richard Whitney mounted the rostrum and trading was halted while he announced that two members had been found guilty of highly improper conduct, expelled. The men were G. Lisle Forman and Morrison B. Orr, floor partners of the recently insolvent firm of Prince & Whitely (TIME, Oct. 20). Already shocking to Wall Street, the affairs of Prince & Whitely loomed even more unpleasant after this official verdict...
Strategy in Handling People is a how-to-succeed book, using a novel technique. It relates a series of anecdotes and then moralizes in italics. Typical moral: "People are all different and must be treated differently." The worst that can be said about the book is that it draws heavily on the life of Benjamin Franklin. But its merit is that the anecdotes pertain to some 300 other people from Louisa M. Alcott to Adolph Zukor...