Word: doubledealing
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Near the end of the semifinal round occurred an incident characteristic of tournament bridge, which is played with fierce attention to technicalities like a small boys' baseball game. In a nip-&-tuck match, A. Mitchell Barnes of the Vanderbilt team, playing a five-heart doubled contract, led a heart...
In 1934 Editor Squire (knighted the year before) retired to live the life of a squire in fact. New literary blood was brought into the magazine in the form of contributions by Auden, Spender, et al. By January 1938, when the price was doubled from 1 s. to 2 s...
Sponsors of the petition expressed considerable satisfaction with the numbers of signatures which almost doubled their original expectations and felt that the University would be forced to take some sort of action in the course of the next few weeks.
To their amazement, the scientists discovered that practically every one of the men doubled his energy output after drinking the gelatin mixture. One cyclist increased his output from 90 watts to 225 watts, enough to win a marathon. "The results," said Dr. Ray, "varied from 37% to 240% increases. . . ."
Sylvia Porter herself has taken free rides on ten Treasury issues, has each year doubled in this and other ways the capital she put into the Government market. She speculates with the help of complicated graphs, for which her husband, Reed Richard Porter of Irving Trust Co., has to do...