Word: doubledealing
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Banker Hecht views banking concentration, formation of chain banks, with the utmost alarm. Articulate, he found phrases: "Financial feudalism . . . economis vassalage . . . financial octopus . . . Branch banking is a monster of such frightful mien." He quoted figures: "During the past 25 years, the number of branch banks has practically doubled each five...
"When I put up that sign," explained Proprietor Giuseppe Maduro, "my business doubled, and so I will never change it."
The insignificant Communist contingent of 4, doubled to a still insignificant 8.
The new reading room will accommodate 1000 students at once, and will occupy the entire top floor with the exception of the wings which will contain lecture halls. The capacity of the stacks will be more than doubled. The new wing which will be perpendicular to the present structure will...
Stertorian grunts of wrath and the banging of doubled fists on tiny cafe tables disturbed a balmy Vienna afternoon, last week, as excitable Austrians forgot their tall foaming glasses of amber beer and devoured lurid headlines.