Word: firmly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wife are spending the summer at Swampscott. The voracious photographers of the press petitioned Mrs. Sanders to let them take her picture. She consented-in golf togs-posed on the golf course of the New Ocean House. A golf ball was dropped in a hazard. She took a firm stance, faced the camera and was snapped-with her club grounded on the sand behind the ball...
According to a Berlin financial agency, the Stinnes firm, founded by the late Herr Hugo Stinnes, has disposed of eleven of its holdings: Three banks, two iron works, the Heinrich August Schulte Aktiengesellschaft (joint stock company), an oil company, a real estate company and several hotel...
...July 3, as everyone knows, the firm of Dean, Onativia & Co., stock and grain brokers, were placed in a receiver-hip, with liabilities of about $36,000,000 and assets of about $35,000,000. Because of the size of liabilities, the insolvency was declared to be a record for size on the New York Stock Exchange...
...breath, staggered out of doors, undetected but quite through with safecracking for that night. Next morning, the bank officials beamed with delight at the evidence of foiled foul play and the efficiency of a fragile flask of Lewisite* they had had installed in the vault by a Chicago firm. Other bankers hastened to ask questions, order flasks of Lewisite for their own protection. Other yeggs scowled at the thought of having to add to their equipment-jimmy, "soup" (nitroglycerin), oxyacetylene blowtorch - a gas mask of exceedingly high impenetrability...
...invention of one Dr. Henry Spahlinger. On the streets of Geneva, they said, posters were displayed announcing the sale of Dr. Spahlinger's research station if his debts were not paid. Despite this, he has rejected an offer of ?250,000 for his serum from a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm, because he feared the serum would be exploited beyond the means of the poor. The medical M. P.'s reported that evidence had been referred to them which satisfactorily supported the claim that 80% of 400 apparently hopeless cases of tuberculosis had been cured by the Spahlinger serum. They...