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Word: agreement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experience, said Oscar Wilde, is the name men give to their mistakes. Although there could be no general agreement as to whether or not the Stockmarket crash of Oct. 23 et seq. was a mistake, last week found most economists and many a businessman looking for the "lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Market Lesson | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...continued. "From October 4 until November 14 a group of internationally known bankers has been engaged at Baden-Baden, Germany. In drawing up the statutes and the charter of the new institution. Details as to the statutes and the charter have been made public recently but the trust agreement, which provides how the new bank shall take over reparations work, cannot be completed until the Second Hagne Conference between the Powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEUTRAL LOCATION OF INTERNATIONAL BANK CRITICISED | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Without letting it bother me an awful lot, I always thought of football scouting as being a pretty low device and I wondered why colleges would agree to scout and be scouted. As long as there was an agreement between the A. A's of the different universities, there was nothing much to be said about the situation except that a football scout was a questionable individual much like a cigar-passing Washington lobbyist. I imagined him to be a small, dark haired man with a false mustache and an evil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

When Notre Dame scouts, in violation of agreement, were caught watching Georgia Tech, it looked bad until Coach Rockne wired that whatever the scouts told would be forgotten. Later Notre Dame's Jack Elder (he once outsprinted Olympic Sprinter Percy Williams) and triple-threat Carideo showed that they did not need to know about Georgia Tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...convictions, their theories and experiences. They have unrolled a prospect wide and various across these one hundred and sixty pages, and they have adorned them with truth, as they found it, and with beauty, as they saw it. Their hope is that they may lull you into flattering agreement or sting you into critical dissent." Contributors noted: Editor Henry Hazlitt, Literary Editor of the New York Evening Sun; Psychologist Joseph Jastrow; Financier Matthew S. Sloan. President of the New York Edison Co. Fat was the fledgling Century (160 pages) few (6) its pages of paid advertising. Price: 75? the copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Magazines | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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