Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact stands, and would stand even had the Council suggestion been accepted, that nearly the entire social life of an undergraduate lies within the limits of his imagination and his bank account. A couple with a half-hour to kill must kill it either expensively or uncomfortably, while a student with a yen for dancing is confronted with inflationary Boston prices. Lack of University facilities for recreation can be completely written off only when and if a War Memorial Student Activities Center is built, complete with lounge and dancing space. But interim measures much more effective than the Council proposal...
...Your account of the founding of A. P. Giannini's Bank of Italy in that remodeled San Francisco saloon [TIME, April 15] has one mistake. The assistant cashier, Armando Pedrini, was not the saloon's bartender. Armando Pedrini, graduate of the Royal Technical Institute of Bologna, was hired away from the Columbus Savings & Loan Society where he was a teller. Later, after he had hit the top in A. P.'s organization (president of National Bankitaly Co., Bankitaly Co. America, Corp. of America), he joined up with the Elisha Walker group which tried to take over Transamerica...
...have just read your account of Kiki [TIME, April 15], where a reference is made to Trilby's "tiny feet." Remembering that Trilby was "very tall and fully developed...
...Hume's account of his years in China, which won the $3,500 Norton Medical Award for 1946, is sketchy and unpretentious, but full of anecdote and East-West contrasts. Hunan 40 years ago had only recently admitted foreigners, and even substantial citizens still clung to their old ways. According to Chinese medical lore, the pulses were of prime importance in diagnosis-both the right and the left pulse, tested at three points on each wrist, each point revealing the condition of a particular organ. A freshly killed rooster helped to drive away fever. At time of childbirth, opened...
Endowment funds account for only one-sixth of the $150,000 spent annually for the University's health while two-thirds must come directly from the students...