Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the accident insurance money built up an oil fortune big enough for him to help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with his Rancocas stables (including World's Champion Horse Zev) and to be offered (so the story goes)' the throne of Albania?fleshy but firm, quiet but quick-eyed, Harry P. Sinclair sat erect and whispered incessantly with his counsel...
...presentation of the lumber industry as one of eight major business enterprises to be studied in Business Policy 12 this year, the Business School has obtained the cost records and full operation data of a lumber firm in Seattle, Washington, and will have officials of the company come to Cambridge as speakers. The firm, whose name is withheld, has been undergoing heavy financial losses in a period of great building activity, and a study of this paradox, with an effort to solve the problem, will occupy the students in the course for the next month...
Professor J. A. de Haas, who is giving the course, states that the study of a specific problem of business administration in a firm at present conducting business under difficult conditions will form an excellent center around which to group a study of other phases of the lumber industry. Reforestation, the use of by-products, and the effect of building booms upon the industry will be some of the correlated subjects presented. The Yale School of Forestry will send experts in lumbering and reforestation, including Professor R. C. Bryant...
Motherhood, winner of $1,000, Belgian Anto Carte's study of a peasant girl sitting on a bench and holding her baby, would have been no more than a suave reiteration had its composition been less finely handled, its line less precisely firm...
...this evil lies, however, rather with the system of secondary education than the governments of advanced institutions. Elementary courses are offered not because they are elementary but because presumably they fill a need. That need once removed, the vacuities in the Freshman mind once made whole with a firm foundation, the courses, theoretically, should cease. Such action has been evidenced in the College by announcement that English A exemptions are allowed to men whose abilities have been tested and found worthy...