Word: trick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Crimson that turned the trick. Fretting at the Harvard faculty's feeble protests against cramming, Editor Blair Clark (son of New Jersey's witty, arrogantly learned Federal Judge William Clark) denounced the tutoring schools as "intellectual brothels," got the Crimson to refuse their advertising (TIME, May 1, 1939). As the Crimson hammered away, the University joined in by starting a competitive, official tutoring bureau, charging relatively modest rates ($2.50 an hour top; poor students are tutored free...
...would be captured by the New Deal. Mr. Landon gnawed over the situation with Ohio's Favorite Son Robert A. Taft, in Topeka on tour. After five hours of hard discussion, Mr. Landon called in reporters, came out flatly against a Third Term, denounced coalition as a political trick. Feeling easier in his mind, he entrained for Chicago and the East...
...scene with an almost flawless performance. Every half smile, every sidelong glance, every toss of her head, every movement of her hands makes the supporting cast sink further and further into a vague, formless background. But as for you, Mr. Goldwyn, by decking out Bob T. in that new trick mustache, you've shattered one of our fondest illusions...
...think somebody's been pulling our legs," Bowie reported. At the same time the lovable tousle-headed lan from Passaic announced that he would take the first trick on the mound in the yearly blue-chip classic Thursday...
Typically colorful trick play on which the indictment is based concerned two private Hopson companies called Associated Securities Corp. (ASECO) and Public Utilities Investing Corp. (PUI). In 1928, they had little capital to speak...