Word: broaching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was no beating-up, and soon after the scene at the Spectator office, Columbia's footballers were forbidden to broach the subject publicly again. But Morningside Heights did not stop talking. Cause of the excitement was a contribution by Editor Harris to the perennial, nationwide discussion of emphasized football. He had written that he would "trade the whole Columbia football team for a nice little place in the country with cows and chickens.'' He had charged that football has become "a semiprofessional racket operated largely for the amusement of the alumni and the general public . . . until...
There are only 40,000 people in Broach, 200 miles north of Bombay. But Broach, in the heart of the cotton district, hums with spinning and weaving mills, gins, oil presses...
Recently United Eastern Agencies, Ltd. acquired the managing agency of the three companies supplying Poona, Broach and Karachi with power & light. Last week the majority of United Eastern Agencies' stock went to American & Foreign Power Co. Inc. The minority holders are largely the same prominent Indians who share with American & Foreign Power control of Tata Hydro-Electric Agencies, Ltd., managing agent for several big power companies in the Bombay district...