Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youth'' wrote Samuel Phillips Jr. a few years before the U.S. Constitution was ratified, has "excited in us a painful anxiety." To allay the anxiety and cure the neglect, the 26-year-old Phillips persuaded his father and uncle to make a gift of lands and cash for the establishment of a school to teach boys "English and Latin Grammar, Writing. Arithmetic, and those Sciences, wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn them the great end and real business of living...
Dormitory and classroom expansion will let Andover raise its enrollment from 790 boys (30% of them on scholarships) to about 850. Not all the academy's plans involve construction and large chunks of cash; in recent years a broad system of honors courses has been instituted, and boys with special ability are encouraged to take exams that will let them skip routine college courses. Last week, deep in plans for improving his academy, Headmaster Kemper explained his purpose-to meet "an era of unparalleled rapidity of change with new ideas, new attitudes, and new techniques and tools, while holding...
...loans now than they did at the end of the last recession in early 1955 (largely because of a tremendous two-year growth in loans), the demand for loans has dropped off. With capital spending down and profits edging up, many industries have built up a good cash fund, do not need loans...
...many an investor to play the old stubby pencil game of "How much would I have now if . . ." If he had bought 100 shares of some stocks, even at the 1929 pre-crash highs, he would now have a pile. Examples, counting stock splits and dividends, but not counting cash dividends and rights, of how each share multiplied: Stock '29 High (One Share) Last Week Number of Shares Now $ Total Value
...Academy meeting in Brookline, Wald was presented with two traditional Rumford medals and a $5,000 cash prize for the "perceptive studies through which (Wald) has illuminated the biochemical basis of vision...