Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Bright on successive days, Ellsworth Vines put out Frank Shields, twelfth ranking U. S. player and Richard Norris Williams II, twice (1914, 1916) national champion. He beat Shields with a spurt of brilliance after a slow start. In the first set he seemed indifferent. After a point had been settled he would shamble back to serve or receive with an absent expression, bored, disinterested. Once in difficulties, he showed his best game. Against Williams he lost the second set but then roused, ran away with the match. Next day he beat Hunter for the second time in a week. Erratic...
...State of Parahyba is a mountainous oblong of land, almost three times as big as Belgium, on the eastern point of the bulge of Brazil. The late Joao Pessoa was more than its Governor. He was the defeated National Democrat (Liberal) candidate for Vice President of the United States of Brazil, brother of learned, esteemed Epitacio Da Silva Pessoa, onetime (1919-22) President of Brazil, now World Court judge. He was also distributor of all the political patronage in Parahyba...
...salary of $12,000; a bonus of $1,623,000. Elated at this success, last week the Eaton attorneys went for bigger game. If Mr. Grace received $1,623,000, how much might not Chairman Charles Michael Schwab get? But while the figure was successfully disclosed, it proved no point. For Mr. Schwab's stipend is a modest $150,000 a year, less than is paid many a lesser tycoon. And he is entitled to no bonus. Together with Mr. Schwab's salary, the Bethlehem attorneys surrendered their company's complete bonus list for last year...
...found the decline was only 3%. Interpretation: the decline in business, compared to a normal year, is not serious. Equally bullish was the statement issued by U. S. Steel's finance committee: "At this date, the manufacturing plants are operating at about 63% of capacity. Indications . . . point to an increase in this rate . . . during the balance of this quarter with an improvement in volume during the last quarter...
...been known and used since prehistoric times. Dangerous always, snow usually covers it to a depth of seven or eight feet, sometimes 40 ft. In 962 Bernard (923-1008), a priest, seeing that many pilgrims used the pass on their way to Rome, founded a hospice on the highest point, 8000 ft., decreed that it should stand as a haven for all travelers. Several years later he founded another hospice, in the Little St. Bernard pass which runs from Bourg St. Maurice to Aosta. During a visit to Rome, he petitioned the Pope to assign the charge to the Augustinian...