Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain that while football is uniformly low, the group is not as low during and after their season as they are in the second half-year which may be called the off-season. These figures give the 'lie' to anyone who contends that football crowds are synonymous with overemphasis and consequently affect the players disastrously...
...addition to the broad general fields of sales, production, and finance, there are certain functions that are found in every business which are considered either as staff departments or as entirely separate divisions. Among these are the purchasing, employment, shipping and receiving, and training departments. Often these functions are now carried out by college men, but in many cases only by such college men as have served in other departments for a greater or lesser period of time...
...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...
PRACTICALLY all modern mystery-detective stories conform to a certain general formula, subject to variations to suit the individual author, of course. There are very clearly defined elements which crop out in every one, sometimes in a slightly different guise, but always distinguishable for what they are. The reason for this recurrence is obvious; these elements are the ones which interest the public and sell the books, and the author has no choice but to include them. Thus we have the love affair between the two principles, gradually developing and providing the happy ending, the clever sleuth, the shifting...
...author or subject in which he becomes keenly interested individually; as the classics, poetry, or the theatre. Consider the man interested in the theatre. He can easily acquire first editions of nearly all the few great plays of the last twenty-five years. In collecting these, he is almost certain to find one author whose work will interest him more than the others. Now he is experiencing his first real thrill in the effort to procure everything published by this particular author. Here also begins the storing up of those little bibliographical details which lend zest to the hunt...