Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCoy. In his so's, Mr. McCoy is the Government's actuary, the Treasury's chief gazer info 'the fiscal future. How much will the U. S. collect next year in income taxes? Mr. McCoy scratches with a pencil, adds, subtracts, consults a sheaf of papers, brings forth an answer. How many cigarets will be smoked? How many men will die to leave large estates? How many shares of stock will change hands? On all these matters, from which the U. S. derives revenue, Mr. McCoy can produce answers. How he does it is his secret...
...obvious answer to the problem is that the present idle surplus of the H. A. A. be used in completing the gymnasium. What earthly objection there can be to such a plan it is hard to imagine. The H. A. A. itself is in favor of it but has so far been detained in carrying out its own wishes by pressure from the Corporation. The doings and deliberations of this body are always cloaked in obscurity and the motivation of its decisions not always apparent. In the present instance, the Corporation's reluctance to let the H. A. A. spend...
...eugenics is likely to be one of unmitigated annoyance. Here is an opportunity to add to the educational facilities of the University with a subject which is attracting the attention of scientists and laymen together; Harvard has passed up the chance, what can she be up to? The answer this time is of course that the bequest carried so many conditions that the corporation felt itself unable to shoulder the responsibility implied in acceptance...
Said Father Allen: "One day you and I will stand before the judgment seat of God. Then the Lord will say to me, 'Father Allen, did I not call you to go to Africa?' I shall answer, 'Yes. Lord.' Then he will say, 'Why did you not go?' I shall answer, 'There stands the Bishop...
When Henry Ford changed from Model T to Model A, how much did the decease of the T model and the birth pangs of the A model cost him? Many a U. S. motorist has asked himself that question, has found one answer in the fact that 1928 Chevrolet production exceeded 1928 Ford production. Last week, however, a dollars-and-cents answer was provided. From figures filed last week with the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations in Boston, it appeared that the new model bill was something more than $72,000,000. For, according to these figures, the Ford profit...