Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter drifted until a subsequent luncheon when Ickes brought it up again. "I said, 'Mr. President, I have an idea. Why don't you send for Woodring and say to him, "Harry, ordinarily Dublin is not an important diplomatic post, but now it is, on account of the war. There will be a vacancy there and I wish to fill it with one of my very strongest men. I want to appoint you." ' The President did not seem to think Woodring would agree to this...
...example, when Commencement used to come on the first Wednesday of July, a total eclipse of the sun caused the Corporation to set the date a week forward. It remained there for about a century. In 1764, the exercises were limited entirely on account of an outbreak of smallpox. The longest lapse of the tradition came from 1775 to 1782, when the Revolutionary War sent the College packing to Concord, and there were no Commencements...
...oldest of the fashionable farming theories, says Dr. Kellogg, teaches that "the soil is like a bank"; the farmer must deposit (in fertilizer) as much as he takes out (in crops), or eventually overdraw his account. This is true only in certain cases, says Dr. Kellogg. Many soils can be cropped indefinitely without loss of fertility. The chemical elements taken away by crops are restored by silt, dust and volcanic ash. Other chemicals work their way up from below. Dr. Kellogg does not believe that fertilizers are unnecessary, but he thinks that farmers who follow the "bank" theory often waste...
...confession of a writer's moral and ethical anguish as ever got into print. Not even in Gide's own sensationally indiscreet autobiography, It Die (a limited edition appeared in the U.S. in 1935), is the reader treated to a grimmer spiritual wrestling match than in this account of Gide v. his personal devil, Gide v. an inhospitable world, Gide v. his Puritan conscience...
Protestant parents, he was free to indulge his moods and vices, and he indulged them. His family had two estates in Normandy and a luxurious Paris apartment. By his own account he was a singularly unattractive youngster and only five when he began to practice "bad habits." A picture taken of him about that time "represents me half hidden in my mother's skirts, frightfully dressed in a ridiculous little check frock, with a sickly, ill-tempered face and a crooked look in my eyes...