Word: concern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bank of England or, more correctly, the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, came into being with the Tonnage Act of 1694. It was and still is an essentially private concern, receives deposits and in general conducts a public banking business. But it is something more: the Government Bank and the National Bank...
Charles appears to be temporarily out of a job, following his retirement as Governor of Nebraska. William has been conducting Sunday School services every Sunday out of doors in Royal Palm Park, Miami. For this he receives, presumably, no?or little?pay. Operating at Miami, there is, however, a concern known as the Coral Gables Miami Riviera Co.?needless to say, realtors. This concern has "developed 4,000 acres and recently purchased 6,000 acres more for "development" at a publicly estimated cost of $100,000,000. In connection with this development, there is a "Venetian Casino," containing...
First, we hope you will ask your subscriber to analyze our advertisement and see that it offers an absolute free trial of ten days, we paying the transportation charges. Would it not seem impossible that a business concern could live and grow for over 20 years, doing business on this basis, if this product were not really of immense benefit to the hard of hearing people...
Rather let the comparison he made between the college paper and the "house organ" of some large business concern. Why can't we consider the University a thriving business concern whose "line" is education. The college paper, like any other student activity, exists for the purpose of selling this education to the public. This same business man's attitude is being recognized more and more by college students. Again and again "The New Student" receives letters from students protesting that this or that item will give their college "unfavorable publicity." It is encouraging to reflect that these students are realizing...
...concentrate, is not easy. It involves knowing a good many facts about courses and departments, having some kind of theory about the relation of undergraduate work to work in afterlife, and coming to a certain understanding about one's self. To go carefully into these three matters as they concern one's individual self is a piece of mental exercise that will yield very large returns. To go into them very briefly and generally is the purpose of this short article...