Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons why the various universities declined to enter the contest this year have not been divulged, but it seems that the only thing Harvard will lose by this is a considerable amount of publicity. It is doubtful whether many people took last year's culture battle as anything but a huge joke, and the final outcome had little significance outside of resulting in a gain of $5,000 for the Harvard English department...
...process or for consumption incidental to the business: second, to provide the most efficient method of securing proper materials, having in mind economy, quality, delivery, and service third, the keeping in touch with markets of various products which are frequently purchased, and finally, to provide a certain amount of sales resistance in opposition to the professional salesman. It is obvious that only men who understand the requirements of a business are really desirable as members of the purchasing department staff, and the general rule that a man should have experience in the line, before going into the staff, is here...
Modern poetry will be taken out of the Harvard classroom and put into the bookshelf and the informal talk by the gift of $42,000 made to the President and Fellows of Harvard College by Morris Gray, '77. Three gifts, totaling that amount, were made, with the object that the income should be applied to the purchase of books of current modern poetry, and books upon the subject, and for talks by poets and critics...
Under the terms of the will, which was filed for probate two days ago, the principal of his fortune will ultimately pass to Harvard for one or more scholarships in international law. The University has not yet announced its official acceptance of the bequest, and the amount could not be ascertained yesterday...
...accord these subject peoples equality of treatment, education in their own language and religious freedom, and in general to abstain from oppressive measures. But in 1919 as in the period before the war, it was thought impossible to apply similar regulations to the larger powers because such provisions obviously amount to an infringment of sovereignty. Consequently there is no legal remedy for the people of southern Tyrol who are the most systematically oppressed of all the submerged peoples in Europe today. Far from having learned from the experience of other states the Italian government has established a record in this...