Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...changing the prospectus, Miss George says, "I am very glad to clear up any confusion which may exist as to who is eligible in the play contest. I want to assure graduate students that they will be welcomed as competitors. To make quite clear the conditions of the contest, here is a revised reading of the first and most important clause: 'The author must be a bona fide student, graduate or undergraduate, in an American college or university up to the time the contest closes, June...
...Employment Office as desiring this sort of work. Of this number 44 were experienced. That there is this demand, and especially that men who have done the work and know what it is wish to do more of it, seems to dispose conclusively of this objection. It is hardly clear just why such employment works to a man's disadvantage any more than any other...
...against $12,841.12 a year ago. This large increase in net profits, amounting to $9,951.24, is due partly to increased sales, partly to reduced expenses, and partly to the fact that improved business conditions have made it unnecessary to resort to mark-down sales in order to clear off stock as was the case with all mercantile concerns during the depression...
There is here much surprisingly good verse, better indeed than I remember to have seen in a single issue of any other American publication. The Sapphices of Mr. Cummings are very fine poetry: the thought is straightforward and clear, the wording is singularly euphonious--as in a Greek meter it should be--and the rhythm expresses, while restraining, mature emotion. Mr. Hillyer's second sonnet on Antinous is richly conceived and adequately expressed; the reading of it gives me intense pleasure, in particular the remarkable sestet with the "Imperial hosts upon disconsolate seas." "The Tree of Stars" and "A Renaissance...
...seniors in asking the freshmen questions about their work, so as to check their observation of technical details and teach them how to analyze the principles of processes. In the second half of the period the freshmen ask the seniors concerning field and shop matters which are not clear to them. So far the plan has worked admirably...