Word: easier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...define what Sam Dodsworth was, at fifty, it is easier to state what he was not. He was none of the things which most Europeans and many Americans expect in a leader of American industry. He was not a Babbitt, not a Rotarian, not an Elk, not a deacon. He rarely shouted, never slapped people on the back, and he had attended only six baseball games since 1900. He knew, and thoroughly, the Babbitts and baseball fans, but only in business...
...Mellon's next notable act was to issue a statement which, had the Congress been in session, must have raised the roof of the Capitol. Said Mr. Mellon: "This is a good time for the prudent investor to buy bonds. ... It is easier to pick out sound bonds than sound stocks" (see BUSINESS...
...probably easier for a man to demonstrate his worth in sales work than any where else, because he actually brings in business to his company, and to the man who brings in business and makes money, the salary increases are apt to come with more frequency than to the man whose ability as a profit maker is not so obvious...
...entrepreneurs. The chief difficulty at present seems to be the initial motive power to start the train from the ground. Once in the air the motor pull for a train is not much greater than for a single plane. Railroaders and motor truckers have the same problem on an easier scale. A solution for the air seems to be multi-motored planes with all engines working for the take-off and fewer for the "haul...
...knives, stag antlers, desk sets, etc. etc.- symbols of a people's free-handed affection for their President. Eight Coolidge trunks entered the White House in 1923; 16 trunks will go back to Northampton, Mass., not to mention all the barrels, boxes, crates. "It is," President Coolidge remarked, "easier to get into the White House than...