Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read with interest your account of the Contentedest Cow. I never realized before what a prize the milk from contented cows actually is If one were to operate the beast which you describe as a miniature dairy for one year the results would be approximately as follows. Assuming local conditions it would cost about $801 to feed her and pay 4% interest on the initial investment. In as much as this does not include labor of tending, taxes, etc. and the receipts obtained from the sale of her produce are only $469 it is perhaps as well to have...
...report in this morning's Crimson of yesterday's session of the State House hearing does not come up to your usual standard of accuracy. Part of the account was so far removed from what happened that I really wonder if a Crimson reporter was present at the hearing. For example, with regard to Professor McLaughlin's speech, your story declared: "McLaughlin claimed that the only purpose of the bill was to 'bulldoze' 'ignorant professors...
James Boswell was an 18th Century Scot who was fond of the bottle and of great men's society. Because he was also a writer of talent and because he turned his admiring passion to such good account, he wrote what is still the world's best-known biography (The Life of Samuel Johnson). Like all literary men Boswell left behind him quantities of manuscript and unpublished writing. Boswell's descendants were gentry, and did not propose to add any more fuel to their ancestor's reputation, already to their minds a little too lurid. From...
...fall. Though her version lacked the imaginative freshness of such historical novels as Robert Graves's on the Emperor Claudius or Lion Feuchtwanger's on Josephus, and neither added to nor subtracted from history's blackboard, it furnished modern readers with a stirring, up-to-date account of one of Rome's greatest true stories. Author Bentley also hoped that her factual record of ancient autocracy would point a moral for the present...
...that Caesar was ever a pervert, even for policy; he mentions Caesar's mistress Servilia only in passing. For Caesar's rapid imposition of New Deal legislation on Rome he has nothing but implicit praise. Two-thirds of the book is devoted to a play-by-play account of Caesar's campaigns-a summary which leads Author Pratt to the surprising conclusion that Caesar "never became great as a soldier.'' He was not even a good soldier; his tactics were "infantile," his strategy "hackneyed and obvious"; he handled cavalry like an amateur. Having startled...