Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brokers answered his questionnaire in the same way. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the House of Morgan reported only their modest income from commissions, not their underwriting and banking income. Lehman Brothers, which is primarily a banking house, reported $12,000,000 profits for 1928 and 1929. Obviously, the bulk of these profits had nothing to do with the fact that the firm has a seat on the Stock Exchange. In the same manner Goldman, Sachs & Co. reported a profit of $6,681,000 in 1928, $7,900,000 in 1929, only to be followed by a thundering...
...ship to visit a U. S. port in 17 years. The Russian ship Vazlaz Vorovsky entered this port on March 23, 1925. There were women in the crew of the Vazlaz Vorovsky as there were in the crew of the Kim. The cargo of the Vazlaz Vorovsky consisted of bulk sylvinite and bulk manure salt...
...fundamental point, of course, is whether or not the existing concentration requirements permit sufficient latitude in other fields. And I submit with conviction that they do not--that freshman distribution is palpably inadequate in this sense; and that the bulk of knowledge thus inflicted upon those of the second category above is infinitely less valuable to them than a corresponding expenditure of time and labor among the high spots of other fields. I do not think that such a course of education would be a superficial one. "Snap" courses are virtually extinct. And there is no correlation between superficiality...
Author Lagerlöf is too good a narrator and too modest a person to make herself the heroine of her story. The other members of her family circle and many a kindly-remembered friend bulk quite as large in her story. Pastor Unger always came to call when the house was upset, and made confusion worse confounded without annoying anybody. When the parish he had always pined for fell vacant he refused to apply, because he thought another man should have the post, but he gave himself the satisfaction of nearly applying. He appeared at the registrar...
...income from the estate will revert to Judge Gary's two daughters by his first wife: Gertrude Gary Sutcliffe of Chicago and Bertha Gary Campbell, whose husband is general counsel for Illinois Steel Co. In her will Mrs. Gary left her art collection and the bulk of her estate to the Metropolitan Museum...