Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even as you would tell Caesar--I need not take a reed pen and write on parchment and thence by messenger to Rome; no I need but take up an instrument and can speak to him direct. Does this amaze you? But I assure you, friend, what we gain in time, we lose in thoroughness...
...some 1,300 U. S. industrial corporations made about $1,100,000,000. In 1935, reports from 237 corporations showed, according to Standard Statistics, Inc., a gain of 48% over 1934. But a $22,000,000 improvement in U. S. Steel and a $72,000,000 improvement in General Motors weighted this average heavily on the side of Recovery. The other 235 corporations showed an increase of about 28%. With good, bad and indifferent reports still to be filed, Standard Statistics took a long breath and figured that when all the returns were in the final result would be some...
...courses; that it be inspiration that doth move us along as well as sheer knowledge. Indeed, methinks, there be all too much emphasis on subject matter and too little on the personality of him who doth teach and who doth learn. For what doth a man profit if he gain the knowledge of all the world and yet hath not the feelings of a gentleman or lacks vision and understanding...
...business I am told-and hath no care for how things ought to be, then the poet doth err: Truth is ugly; common; dust. It be no pursuit for one who hath in his heart the improvement of man. Indeed, if this be true, what doth one gain to seek the truth if it doth not lead to more than the impassive real. Better an illusion to raise man up than a truth which doth make him as spiritless as a rock. With my head much troubled by these thoughts, I out for a little walk...
About a third of this gain can be traced to be increased influx of foreign students. A total of 207 men from 46 alien nations and U. S. possessions are now studying here, as compared with 170 in 1934-35. Only 35 foreign countries and U. S. possessions were represented last year...