Word: turned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately the Vagabond is not writing while en route to Michigan. Situations have taken a bad turn for him; for he was shamefully prevented from reaching Yost Stadium. And the utter defeat of his carefully laid schemes has greatly upset the dean of all week-enders...
...this morning while others read scare heads and look forward to the afternoon's adventures, the Vagabond can only sadly turn over in bed and think of what might have been. Nevertheless, he is still looking for good news to come out of the air this afternoon...
...glance around any modern bookshop is proof that current literature is far greater in amount than the average reader can hope comfortably to taste, to chew, or to digest. The student in Harvard naturally feels somewhat at a loss which way to turn when presented with such a volume of reading matter. The value of some sort of selection in this maze of books seems obvious...
Soon the Nordisk Trust Co.-exclusively financed by U. S. capital of Danish-American extraction-also suspended payments. Nordisk is a heavy shareholder in Folkebank, which in turn has large holdings in Crown Butter and the other Plum butter company, Le Brun...
...went to work for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. he had reason to be pleased. For famed in Pittsburgh are the Joneses and the Laughlins, controlling the greatest "family" steel company. Hard-swearing, wearing his hat at all times to be ready for emergency mill calls, Mr. Girdler in turn pleased the Joneses and the Laughlins. So well did he please them that when last year they heard outside interests, represented by Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, were seeking General Manager Girdler, they made him president of Jones & Laughlin...