Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, as all the world knows, the girls of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., hold the ceremony of the Daisy Chain. The rotogravure sections of metropolitan papers contain, during that week in June, immense flowery serpents of braided daisies. In hamlets, in far cities, in spacious houses on country roads, friends and relatives of Vassar sophomores seize upon the papers, push eager forefingers along the Daisy Chain, from face to face. If they thus discover the countenance of their friend or relative, they instantly set their heads at an angle, compare some other countenance selected haphazard from the file...
...grading was a necessary administrative evil. But now that the tutorial system has risen; now that it begins to fulfill the promises of its advocates; now that its usefulness and power of future development are every-where recognized, the present system of and emphasis on grades is a galling chain fettering the future to a dead and sterile past...
...kernel is sound. A young man who lives and breathes only for syncopation marries into a dry-goods family with emporiums the country over. For four years he is bound by the chain store shackle. The family still regard him as a cheap actor, a low comedian, a gutter snipe. He makes the obvious burst and, as the final curtain falls, is headed for Broadway and a career of sound public service as a song-and-dance...
...prosperity of chain stores continues to be the admiration and despair of most other lines of trade and industry. For the calendar year of 1924, the F.W. Woolworth Co. showed net, after depreciation and taxes of $20, 669,397, $7.95 on each of its present 2,600,000 common shares, or $31.80 on its 650,000 shares of old stock, upon which $31.84 was earned in 1923. Woolworth has assets totaling $92,422,858, compared with...
...today, and tomorrow, will go on sale. The Business School will prevent that. Its surveys are already in the field. Within a week it will know how many eggs are missing west of the Mississippi. It will calculate when these missing eggs would ordinarily go on sale at certain chain-restaurants. It will know how many flue pullets were eternally dissuaded from saying. It will compute how much money changed pockets during the darkness of the eclipse, and how much the great stores of Boston generously contributed to science by letting their employees free at the time...