Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...margin of error in such standards as college board marks and secondary school grades becomes increasingly wide as the proportion of applicants for admission accepted by colleges diminishes. The chances that the student who averages seventy percent in his entrance examinations will have greater capacity for college work than the student who averages sixty five by no means amount to certainty. Still less can a sure distinction be made between the eighty and seventy five...
Elected. Harrison K. McCann, (H. K. McCann Co.), and John Benson, (Benson, Gamble, Johnson & Reed); to be respectively Board Chairman and President of the A. A. A. A. (American Association of Advertising Agencies...
Died. Mrs. Lavinia Abercrombie Lovett, wife of famed Chairman Robert Scott Lovett of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad; in Locust Valley...
...stocks on the Big Board, Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. has been the dullest and dreariest. Back in 1919, it cost $2.85 a share; in 1923, one could buy it for 25?. But for the most part, it hovered around $1. And there, for a jest, three potent stockmarketeers bought it in large blocks as the wittiest of all possible Christmas gifts to their wives...
Real Estate. Manhattan's two organized stock & bond marts are the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Curb Exchange. Last week President Peter Grimm of the Real Estate Board announced plans for a third securities exchange. With temporary headquarters at No. 12 East 41st street, Manhattan, it will deal in real estate, stocks and bonds...