Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Punch's caption: "A WELL-EARNED REWARD" "The Good Fairy, Britannia (to the Principal Boy)- "AND NOW TO PLEASE THE STALLS, THE PIT AND GALLERY, "ALLOW ME TO PRESENT A RISE OF SALARY...
...sessions; all of them when important measures are under consideration; they must shush the Majority whenever it threatens to lose its dignity, become loud and boisterous; must forewarn the leaders of revolts brewing; must keep Democrats from signing petitions to discharge unwelcome bills from committees; must, above all, not allow the formation of blocs...
These indices differ because they are figured on different bases. Dun's was started in 1860, is compiled from more than 200 items. The magic base of normality-100%-is not used. Instead, figures expressing a total in which each item is "weighted" according to per capita consumption, allow the index to run where it will. For customers used to the Bradstreet index started in 1892 Dun & Bradstreet also computes the combined per-lb. prices of 96 items. This monthly index was at $6.35 in March 1933, is now at $11.14. The Annalist uses a long list of commodities...
...place of assembling the entire class three times a week for formal lectures, Professor Frickey would do well to follow out the same procedure which he already uses in Accounting--namely, to break up the class into compact sections of twenty to thirty members and allow his assistants to do the lecuring on a small scale. This would give that personal instruction which is so necessary to a subject resembling both geometry and algebra. In addition it would eliminate much of the time wasted in stagnant perplexity during the laboratory period. As for reforming the reading material, we can suggest...
...Western Massachusetts open slope skiing is reported at Greenfield. The trails on Greylock are insufficiently covered to allow any running but some of the open slopes on the north side of the mountain have two inches of powder snow over a thin frozen base...