Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Auditors' certificates like the foregoing are appended to the financial reports of almost every big U. S. corporation. Contrary to popular belief, accounting is not an exact science. Charges, reserves, write-offs, appraisals, etc. are matters of opinion. Though profits or losses are calculated to the last digit, even the smartest auditor cannot predict the precise day when a lathe will cease to turn or a truck wear out. Best he can do is to estimate, with the management's help, the probable life of plant & property, set aside an approximate sum for depreciation. Having done this...
...hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone. Many a reader will find nothing handy to throw. Shocking to the Goncourt Academicians mainly for stylistic reasons (says Defender Daudet: ''It is written in Parisian colloquial speech, a very special language, superficially lazy yet fundamentally exact"). Journey to the End of the Night will shock many a U.S. reader by its almost unrelieved unsentimentality. Physiological rather than pornographic, Author Céline might rest his case on a remark of his hero's. "A body is always something that's true; that...
...such an event were so briefly reported in the U. S. Press, neither readers nor publishers would be satisfied. Yet almost an exact parallel of that tragedy occurred in the Hotel Continental apartment of Premier Gaston Doumergue last week. Mention was limited to a few slender paragraphs in New York newspapers and a close-mouthed silence on the part of French officialdom...
...question that any plan to give the tutorial system the importance it deserves should be adopted so soon as possible. The system, while not yet fully developed, is potentially one of the most admirable aspects of Harvard. Its particular virtue is that the student can get an exact return on the time he gives it, whereas no matter how much time he is given to most courses, there is a limit to what they have to offer. For the student who is interested in his field it is a source of chagrin that at present the work he does...
While the exact Harvard lineup was still in doubt after yesterday's practice, it seemed likely that Captain Eddie Loughlin, the Crimson's featherweight hurler, would go to the firing line against the Scarlet and White. In the event that Samborski elects to hold Loughlin in reserve for the hard-hitting Friars of Provi- dence College, Paul deGive, who showed fine promise in the closing stages of the 1933 season, probably will get the call...