Word: absorbents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...different types of advertising display and appeal. In addition, an advertising agency through its affiliation with the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, the Association of National Advertisers, and other similar bodies, obviously has an opportunity to absorb the most advanced advertising through and practice as expressed through these established and recognized organizations. Just as all telephone lines lead to a central office, so all advertising lines converge at an advertising agency, and by reason of this fact, the agency is able to put at the disposal...
...More attention must be paid to conversational ability in the study carried on in this country. For real results foreign residence in commercial surroundings is essential. And this experience gained in foreign countries must be obtained at an age when it is easy to acquire the language and to absorb the meaning of the methods, practice and customs of the foreign peoples. The individual must not be an outsider looking in, but must make himself one of the people in whose commercial, industrial or financial activity he has elected to engage. Before entering into foreign service, he must remember that...
...round, intelligent human being and citizens, trained intellectually, physically and socially; but it will also avoid allowing the chosen five per cent to become narrow-minded specialists. For, says Dean Gildersleeve, "we will admit into the course only students with such intellectual ability and interests that they can absorb enough knowledge of philosophy and economics, or example, to make them intelligent citizens, without taking definite prescribed courses in these subjects...
Freshman, are you looking for advice? No, you have enough thrust upon you without seeking it. We sympathize with you because the advice you have already received is as nothing to that which you have yet to absorb or reject. Nevertheless we have this...
...training for the transition from college to business had been devised. Yet this transition is unquestionably more difficult than the similar transition from the technical school to the engineering positions. In the ministry, the law, and the medicine, experience has proved that the shortest and most effctive way to absorb the fundamental facts, principles, and standards of the particular profession and to prepare for its practice is in a good school. The busy practitioner of any profession has neither the time, the specialized training, nor the equipment for the systematic instruction of beginners. This is particularly true of business...