Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good a presumption as any. They took out that amount two years ago. However, they did have to declare how much money the company had made over and above all expenses. That is, the amount they added to the company's profit and loss surplus account. The amount was $75,270,895, and it made that account total $697,637,788.* Thus the three Fords, it might be said, have an equity of almost three-quarters of a billion dollars in their Ford Motor...
Yesterday afternoon on the Freshman diamond the 1930 nine trounced a Huntington School nine, 17-1. So long did the Freshmen's assault drag out the game, that the contest was called off on account of darkness after the first half of the seventh inning...
...Gregg remarks that with two editors in the Church, and two in the courts, the contribution of the Lampoon to these professions ceases. In an imposing array of exotic psychological terms he attempts to account for this defection. The real reason need not by shrouded in abstractions. From time immemorial, these professions have not been absent, from the stock, in trade of humorists. To remain consistent with their early merry selves, college humorists doubtless steer very clear of legal and ecclesiastical waters. Humorists may be a number of things, but they are not traitors...
...this blind passion is itself one of the reasons why the original version is so moving. Does Mr. Robinson, apparently discarding it, and retelling the story in the terms of modern sensitivity succeed in making his account equally moving and convincing? This is the important question the reviewer must...
Should the Associated Press elect to release an account, colorful or otherwise of the life and works of Editor Mencken, it could draw him to the attention of scores of millions of people. Therein lies its responsibility, a full sense of which Editor Mencken was moved to drive home. The American Mercury's account of the life and works of the Associated Press, on the other hand, reached only some 75,000 persons. These would be a great many if they really represented the "civilized minority" to which the magazine addressed itself at its founding three years...