Word: doubledealing
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Some years ago polished Card Shark Ely Culbertson, scrawny titan of contract bridge, talked his way into the Tall Story Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs...
In headline form the news looked bad-not only had bank failures in the last six months of 1937 almost doubled but in that period FDIC's earnings failed for the first time to cover its operating expenses. This did not reflect two important facts, however: 1) for the...
Afraid that many civil servants would have to quit their jobs or die of malnutrition because the 50% depreciation of Nicaragua's currency has raised living costs beyond their reach, drastic Finance Minister Benito Ramirez last week doubled the pay of all Government employes, including himself.
If cancer cells of the type called Ehrlich sarcoma are ground up, made into an emulsion and injected beneath the skins of mice, the animals invariably die. Drs. Alexandre Besredka and Ludwik Gross of the Pasteur Institute in Paris made small, weak doses of finely minced sarcoma tissue, injected them...
From this episode, I learned that it is customary, in this course, to measure written assignments by quarto pages of the common 8 1-2 by 11 inch size. The impression seems to prevail that a page is a page for a' that; and the student may use single, double...