Word: ac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gilbert Patten, who created him under the name of Burt L. Standish. Now he will probably live in his rewritten version in Harkness Brick Court, exercise under the eagle eye of Bob Kiphuth in the new Whitney Memorial Gymnasium and snatch a toasted bun for breakfast at the new Ac Longley's, where Mrs. Graves is no longer cashier...
...Yale's unstable society, it is obvious that the Classes are too large to attain any considerable unity of spirit. In Yale College, the Classes average near 550. The Freshman Year approximates 850. In addition Ac and Sheff are unfortunately separated by the insurmountable barriers of one or two blocks of administration buildings. Consequently, no one knows a quarter of the men in his Class. There is little Class, spirit, little incentive to stay around week-ends and to organize scrub teams. It is apparent that the House Plan by breaking up these unwieldy units will go far towards recouping...
Uncertainty of earnings has led to a new dividend practice. Many stocks on a dividend basis are being added to the list of those for which no annual rate can be quoted (Canadian Pacific, American Car & Foundry, Socony-Vacuum, Great Northern, Transamerica, Stone & Webster). Ac- tual rates of such stocks are expected to continue as high as ever...
...enough to make any artist feel it in himself. "Man has already accepted the power given him by the machine, this vicarious power that moves mountains, that flies beneath the sea and through the air, that transports him so swiftly from place to place, as real power. He has ac cepted it as his own power. ... To at tain real power, of the mind, of the spirit, is a long slow process. Why should man go to all this trouble when he can so easily attain this vicarious power?" "It is a factual age, and in a factual age women...
...which offered "ABSOLUTELY FREE" lists of wealthy widows to anybody who had the price of a two-cent stamp. In four years the "society" had collected more than $100,000 in "dues." Its president, a Mrs. Olga Plater, and her husband, Albert Browel Plater (who in 1917 had been ac cused of impersonating a Russian count, a U. S. Army captain), lived in a $50,000 home near Detroit. Last week the American Friendship Society was involved in a sordid, hideous mess. In a shallow grave beside a garage in Clarksburg, W. Va., were found the bodies of two women...