Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What we want to be sure of," cried Lord Grey, "is that the Government has instructed the Admiralty that in drawing up the program of British naval requirements it should not take the United States fleet into account. Previous British Governments have never done that...
...first, lasting from eight to eleven in the morning, informed the Imperial Ancestors that their descendant had now assumed his full Imperial Station. The second ceremony - of chief interest to Occidentals on account of the chair - culminated at 3 p. m. and was, in essence, simply a proclamation by the Son of Heaven to his People that he is now Tenno. This was the "Coronation" proper...
...first business training was with Brother Gus (Claus August) in the Philadelphia refinery. For his second effort, he and Brother Gus went into business on their own account. They bought, from Father Claus, one of the Hawaiian plantations which they had remade into an efficient enterprise. Suddenly Father Claus cut off all money for further development. The family row shook the banks of San Francisco, but at length they found the money. When Son Rudolph was 26, he sold the plantation and prepared to retire. He had gratified his ambition. He was then a millionaire...
...Harvard the question of further cutting freedom is more one of form than of substance. Although Dean's List men and Seniors in good standing alone have official sanction for unlimited cutting, men in good standing of whatever class are seldom called to account for their absences from the class room. The University administration admits in practice if not in theory that students should be allowed to decide for themselves through what channels they are to acquire learning...
...account of the "Dark Ages"--the period of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries, the epoch of the Founders of later mediaeval civilization...