Word: filles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macmillan refused to buy back the books at the purchase price (about $1.50 per copy), under the law Macy's could have sold them at any price. Big as the return shipment was, enough copies of the 1, 037-page book were kept to fill odd orders. Macy's total sales of the book since last June: 170,000. Sales at $3 the first two days after the price was fixed...
...that the committee cautiously sanctioned an increase in production for the third quarter of 1937 from 85% to 90% of basic quotas favorable to British producers set in June 1934. Also established for the fourth quarter was a 90% quota. Even then it was doubtful whether producers can fill quotas estimated at 1,050,000 tons for 1937 because of lack of shipping facilities and labor shortages in the caoutchouc kingdoms...
Candidates, it was announced, must register at the Class Day headquarters in Lehman Hall before Saturday, April 3. Each candidate will be asked to state any experience or qualifications he may have which bear on his ability to fill this position. He will be given an opportunity to submit with his registration any manuscript or copy of past work or proposed work that he may wish to have considered as evidence of his ability...
...have a new test, consisting mainly of a box of toy objects, such as an automobile and a shoe, which they can identify by pointing and gurgling. Older children point out the larger of two balls, detect verbal and pictorial absurdities. "Superior adults" restate proverbs in their own words, fill out blanks in sentences, find antonyms...
...recent election to fill next year's executive posts of Phillips Brooks House leaves the gate open for a critical appraisal of the usefulness of the president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer. There is reasonable justification for believing that the positions may be mere rewards for past services to the House; but no undergraduate position of such weight and value as the P.B.H. posts can be sinecures even for fagged veteran volunteers. The three men elected to the management of P.B.H. should be charged with duties equal to the size and volume of their post; they ought to control...