Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German electric companies could afford this. It has been a lush year for their stockholders. German General Electric recently declared a 7% dividend. Last week Siemens-Schuckert declared 7½%. Potent Siemens & Halske, nearly 20% of whose stock is owned by U. S. individuals and investment trusts, cut a 14% melon...
...said: "The number closed each year is large. But the number does not decrease on that account. There is a thoroughly organized business which replaces its retail selling agencies as fast as they are discovered and closed up. . . . Probably a much greater number of those who patronize speakeasies can afford to do so than was true in the case of the saloon. Thus the closing of the saloon has been a gain even if speakeasies abound...
...made there by the late Sir Henry Segrave in his Golden Arrow. Capt. Campbell was having a little trouble with the town of Daytona and the American Automobile Association about expenses for electric timing devices and payment of officials at the trials, not because he could not afford to put up the money himself but because he felt it unfair for him to pay his own judges...
...usual Monday evening high table dinner at Lowell House this evening Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for the presidency in 1928, will be present. Thomas spoke at the Old south Forum yesterday afternoon. In order to afford members of the house an opportunity of meeting Thomas. Professor Coolidge has arranged for him to be present in the students' common room from 7.20 o'clock until 8 o'clock, at which time he will greet any students desirous of making his acquaintance...
...experience, ability, and interest in teaching similar to that required for tutorial work may be appointed as assistants and instructors. The number of part-time teachers in Freshman courses should be reduced. In some cases, if the compensation is made sufficiently attractive and scholarships available, a young instructor could afford to give alternate years to uninterrupted graduate work and to full-time teaching. The recognition in exceptional cases of especial teaching ability and interest in working with young men as a basis for promotion and less emphasis on writing and research would also make it possible to keep...