Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...risky, if not impossible job to get it in without blowing it up. It is impossible make port with it because it will blow up on striking bottom ( being fitted with cross triggers in the head) so one has to be very sure that they have a submarine to deal with before putting the paravane out. TIME keeps me in touch with the world and I revel in it from cover to cover. K. B. THOMPSON, V.P. The Reese Advertising Agency Inc. New Orleans, La. Unpopular Prof. Sirs: I read your magazine every week for the simple reason that...
...young man, indifferent. Masculine naiveté differs from the feminine: it exacts of an actress a talent at least equal to Maude Adams'. The lines have either suffered in translation or the good people of London and Paris, in their enthusiasm for glorifying Mozart, read a great deal into them. One or the other may explain why the play succeeded on the Continent while failing to stir the North American emotions. The music by Reynaldo Hahn is undistinguished...
George might chat concerning the aces or Bond Street styles--but would Calvin be interested? Calvin, on the other hand, could discourse with some use and a great deal of knowledge about the maple sugar industry as practised in the New England States; but, then, George might be bored. The Queen would no doubt want to be remembered to Mrs. Coolidge but such courtesies require only a brief time for despated. Certainly neither gentleman will open the question of debits or foreign trade--politics are taboo in polite social circles. It is a difficult situation when two parties of such...
...great deal of the research now accomplished is done by scholars on their own resources. It is done by University teachers who use their evenings and their summer vacations for the purpose. College authorities, all over the country, do Ilp-service to the principle that research and creative scholarship should be encouraged in every way; but let a teacher ask for fewer classroom hours in order to do his own writing he will usually find that the real interest of the College authorities does not go very deep...
...Lucas Pacioli took a great deal of the accounting information contained in his book from the educated Greek slaves who did the mathematical work of Italy during the Roman era. He makes no pretense of denying the source of his information, but assorts his statistics for carrying on business from the various systems accessible to him. The astounding part of his work is that it contains the essense of the accounting system as it is used today. Many methods have not changed at all since business first came to be recognized as a form of activity best carried...