Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factories and that other people sell things, but they imagine that the factory people are dirty and ignorant and that the salesmen are back-slapping parasites whose function is to force their customers to buy things they neither need nor want. The unfortunate clerk who pores over his account books from dawn to dusk is in a blind alley and the slave of his work. "These", says the senior, "are not the things I want to do; surely somewhere in the business world is a job for a college man, perhaps a job I never heard of, perhaps in 'office...
...play at baseball, a kind of rounders. They are extremely orderly and well-behaved. Nothing surprises an English University man so as to see young ladies tripping about in the neighborhood of the college, and to learn that several girls' schools have been established at Cambridge on account of the university and the superior training which may be there obtained...
Japanese politeness when one is winning or has won seemed to account for a silky statement by that fiery militarist whose rambunctiousness in Parliament provoked the crisis, General Count Juichi Terauchi. "There is talk in the streets," softly ad mitted the Count, "but the Army has no intention of carrying out a Dictatorship or a Fascist regime...
...LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER, Vol. II: 1848-1860-Ernest Newman-Knopf ($5). Masterly account of the composer's underestimated role in the Revolution of 1849, his chronic professional and domestic wrangling over musical problems, love affairs, debts, odd cures for complicated illnesses. Astute Critic Newman finds more than hearsay behind the story that Wagner's real father was a Jewish actor named Geyer, his mother the illegitimate child of Prince Constantin of Weimar...
Fourthly, although all students concentrating in a field should be required to take the same basic general examination, a modification in tutorial instruction will necessitate certain readjustments in the general examinations so as to take account of the variations in preparation. This can be done by the inclusion of certain questions which are intended especially for men who have received full-time tutorial instruction or by the setting of certain additional examinations for such men. As a matter of fact, such variations have been in use for some time, and no new principle would be involved in making the procedure...