Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back and forth. Kennecott copper up 12; Curtiss Aero, 12⅓; Wright Aero, 15½. Turnover: 4,894,670 shares. . . . More on Thursday, 5,037,330 shares, second "five million" day in history, only a handful less than on record-breaking June 12. Montgomery Ward closes at 366. Net gain: 17 points. Mounting, too, are Wright (6½-points more, 22 in two days), Coty, Inc. (10½). Where is the ticker? Over an hour behind (might as well have been a week) on Thursday, 47 minutes the day before, 46 minutes on Friday. Friday: Montgomery Ward adds another...
Relatives of public figures often avoid the public eye. As often they cannot escape it. Many a political son and grandson has had a distaste for politics?viz., the late Robert Todd Lincoln?or keeps out of it because of a feeling that the glory he might gain might be partly reflected. A case of the latter kind is Grandson Henry Cabot Lodge, able political writer on the New York Herald Tribune, who has repeatedly declined nominations in Massachusetts. Cases exactly the opposite of Grandson Lodge are Sons Theodore Roosevelt (unsuccessful) and Son Robert Marion La Follette (successful...
...theatre of the University Players Guild at Woods Hole. Massachusetts has already been broken, it was announced last night by T. J. Smith '30, manager of the Harvard Dramatic Club. The Guild, comprised of 25 players, ran a two months season at Falmouth last summer, netting a $11000 gross gain. As a result of this success, it plans to open the new $40.000 theatre next summer for two months, after which the players will perform during the winter season in New York City...
...thought by Coach Cowles that this may bring about a number of radical changes in the game. With the lively ball formerly in use, a smashing back court game was generally accepted as the most successful style of play, Now it is possible, however, that the opposite style will gain favor, with drop shots and corner shots in the front court proving most effective...
...most active concert halls in the world, it is always an annoyance and often an impossibility for her students to make the effort necessary to reach them. Only two or three times a year, to hear a particularly well known artist, does the reasonably enthusiastic music lover gain the lower frontier of Huntington avenue. Such infrequent exposure to one of the noblest, of the fine arts is not enough to make any appreciable difference in one's knowledge. But at last the mountain, or at any rate a very satisfactory foothill, has come to Mohammed, and henceforth only actual indifference...