Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorry to have to point out two errors in an otherwise accurate and entertaining account of the work of the College Entrance Examination Board [TIME...
This is not an apology, though, for the team will give a good account of itself, despite the caliber of the opposition. With a few more weeks to learn the Barclay system, a few more sessions to get to know each other, and any sort of breaks at all, this team should do all right. Certainly no one around Cambridge should be selling it short...
...months, Hession and Silverman had 1,000 California businessmen mailing their records every Monday to the company's San Diego and Los Angeles offices (Mail-Me-Monday pays the bill if their figures on tax returns are wrong). They soon had so many accounts that they started to sell franchises for the use of the idea on a basis of $1,500 down, $1 a month royalty on each account handled...
Katherine Marshall has written what she frankly calls "this homespun account" because "General Marshall has told me that he will never write his own memoirs, his knowledge of people and events being too intimate for publication." The result is a friendly, chatty, modest collection of data and trivia that rarely goes beyond the bounds of domesticity...
...This account must necessarily be incomplete without a word on post-war conditions. Classes are crowded naturally, some unfortunate creatures are still bunking on the floor of the basketball court, and the average Yale man living at one of the Colleges finds himself much more crowded than his Crimson counterpart, with four men frequently inhabiting an ordinary double...