Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both crews will be working out regularly every day from now on. The Freshman are still rowing in the Leviathan but will probably go out in shells tomorrow...
...second main division of business may be covered under the general heading of distribution. This would include selling, in its broadest sense, and advertising. We may define it as "getting rid of the goods". Most products go through the hands of several salesmen, first perhaps the wholesaler, then the jobber, then the retailer. In the automobile business they go through that part of the organization which has to do with the supervision of agencies, then through the agency itself, and from the salesman to the consumer. In the case of businesses which manufacture paper, dye stuffs, and other materials...
...heading he should be able to meet his prospect on even ground and discuss his problems intelligently. Under the second heading he must be able to ring door bells, either metaphorically or literally, day after day, always having in mind that the way to get new customers is to go out and get them, and that no amount of advertising, leads, or other help from the home office will ever take the place of getting face to face with just as many customers as is humanly possible...
...They voted for the Post. No, the Saturday Evening. I read that thing too. The guy's crazy. I said he's crazy. Like every Harvard man calling every one a guy. He must've stayed at the Liberal Club. No, I never. The cook's Russian. Liable to go nuts and blow the place up. They do that in Russia...
...brutal were these crimes that the French press was led to believe that the long-standing tradition might be broken, whereby no woman has been guillotined in France since 1887. But kindly "Gastounet" ended by commuting all four death sentences to penal servitude for life. They will never go free. "Life imprisonment" in the U. S. often means 20 years in jail, with time off for good behavior. In France it is a sentence that means just what it says...