Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Amery, brusque, direct, arch-imperialist, uttered on this occasion bland words: "I deal in this office with 36 different governments, each entirely separate from the rest, each administratively, financially and legislatively self-contained. The whole system with its haphazard complexity and lack of coordination of any structural basis would not for a moment, I fancy, be tolerated by any of our more logical neighbors across the Channel. For all that I believe our system, or lack of system, has certain great advantages. It would be a profound mistake to scrap the essentially local and individual basis of our system...
...Retail Dry Goods Association in Chicago last week, President Homer Buckley of Buckley, Dement & Co., Chicago, said: "The theory [that the customer is always right] is sound because 99% of the people are honest. The other 1% takes advantage of the practice and the store may lose on the deal, but the loss is compensated by keeping the others satisfied." Because two years ago 12% of gross volume of department store sales was returned by dissatisfied customers, the University of Pittsburgh is conducting research to learn just who is at fault-customer or merchant. Data so far accumulated indicates that...
There is, it is true, a very inane but very amusing ditty called "Leander" and this, aided by the antics of the juvenile loads, manages to inject a great deal of life into the second act. But not even "Leander" can quite compensate for some turgid emotionalizing on the part of the plump and mature prima donna who by dint of some rapid fire acrobatics falls swooning into the hero's arms just as the curtain is lowered on polite but not too frenzied applause. And the hero--well, the hero is handicapped by the royal trousers, which were built...
Under the direction of W. E. Soule '27, the student advisory system was remodelled last full and made a great deal more effective than in the past. The number of student advisors was diminished to 70, and many of these men returned to college early in order to aid in the administration of "Freshman week." Written reports on each advisee were required from each adviser...
...fishing has had enough sacred poets celebrating it already. Isn't there a good deal to be said, after all, for fishing with a worm...