Word: actuallity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would acquire a great amount of erudition, but the vast majority would get only a superficial knowledge, too scant to be of any value whatsoever. Another apparent fault is the fact that the one half of one percent of super-students would be entirely excluded from contact with actual experience and the other people of lesser intelligence. The inevitable result would be that when released from this turkish bath of learning they would lack the practicability to apply their knowledge to actuality...
Federal Reserve Power. Speculators have long since realized that Federal Reserve authorities disapprove of their activities. The important question lies in what steps the Federal Reserve can take to translate disapproval into the actual cutting off of credit. Discussions of the power of the Federal Reserve Board (as distinct from its opinions) is obscured by the popular conception of an all-powerful group of government appointees sitting in Washington and turning credit on and off like firemen playing a hose...
THIS biography, almost 400 pages long, is amazingly interesting, amazingly true and amazingly well-written. Its central theme, more substantial in its actual story than the plots of many of our popular novels, is drawn from the experiences of a young English-Scandinavian immigrant in Canada and the United States...
...stock then fell off in the December slump. Present Montgomery Ward quotations of 141¼ are, of course, for the new issue. †Atlas Powder Co. paid an actual dividend of $20.27, the difference accruing from the sale of holdings in Canadian Industries, Ltd. The $6.30 figure denotes profit from operations alone. **Ward Class "B" Common paid $.71 a share with a high for the year of 241⅝ making a ratio...
...slot machine. The examiner should rather seek to test not only knowledge, but also the student's selective ability in using that knowledge to support his own reactions. This in turn demands time. In other words a short examination, calling for as much reflection and marshaling of material as actual writing, is greatly to be preferred to a long, elaborately subdivided paper which can be mel only by a hasty deluge of crammed facts and catch word opinions...