Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must give way to the more sedate touring car of the happily married student with the wife and little strangers. In the coeducational University of Washington, marriage among the undergraduates is even being promoted by the faculty on the grounds that those who have the responsibility of a wife get better grades...
...great banking house which grew out of the little shop in the Frankfort Judengasse. For the average reader, neither a student of the period, nor one more than ordinarily interested in the history of the amazing growth to power of the House of Rothschild, for one who wishes to get some light on its development and influence, Mr. Ravage's book is well designed, and, so far as it goes, essentially correct...
...There are only two things in business that count; one is cost and the other is sales. If your sales are ahead of your costs you are making money, if your costs are ahead of your sales, you are losing money, you are in the red, and somebody will get jumped on." It is in the accounting department that the facts of the business are discovered. It is there that the operating executives find out the progress that the company is making...
...Cadillac calls for her every night. No, but Al tried. He drove up in front with his Chevy one time and blew the horn until the manager got a cop. Guess he was afraid of another riot. We students just don't have any riots. Didye get that one? It's a good pun. Well, even Kitty says puns are O. K. and he's a pundit. All right. I'll shut...
Sixty cents? I beg YOUR pardon. Huh? Bill that guy swapped checks on me. That's all right, he'll get it in the neck tomorrow. In French. We got a rotten section man, did I tell...