Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is, however a limit below which expenses cannot be cut and government still function efficiently. No one need fear that expenses will fall below this limit--the bottomless public purse is surety enough. But the question arises: "Will the gross reduction in expenses suffice to make an appreciable lowering of individual taxes?" The answer is doubtful, but there is evidence to make one believe that it will...
Processional. The Theatre Guild, having this season produced two gross financial (and artistic) successes,* resolutely entered its laboratory and emerged with the findings of a wild experiment. The play is an effort in American expressionism by John Howard Lawson, called a "jazz symphony of life" and seems at last a somewhat hazy reference to Joyce's Ulysses...
...Gross earnings of the Company have increased steadily: in 1921 they were $4,189,031; in 1922, $15,101,044; in 1923, $26,570,814; and in 1924 they are estimated at $45,000,000, or about $4.00 a share on outstanding common shares. The speculation in Radio shares is obviously prompted by the apparently limitless future of the new industry. Sales of radio sets and parts have increased from $2,000,000 in 1920 to $400,000,000 in 1924, and the "saturation point" is still apparently far away. The radio industry appeals to the average American...
Score, B. A. A. 6, Harvard 5, Goals, Austin 3, Beals, Pratt, Goran 3, Harrington 2, Small, Reforces, Synott and Tuck. Time, three 20 minute periods one 10-minute period. HARVARD B. A. A. Austin, Gross, Burgess, l.w. r.w. Hughes, Smith Hodder, Zarakov, Scott, Pruyn c. c. Geran, Enright Beals, Hamlen, Bailey, Howe r.w. l.w. Harrington Pratt, Howard, l.d. r.d. Small Ellison, Wylde, r.d. l.d. Van Gerbig Newell, Cumings g. g. La Croix
...must emphasize that the erection of the foregoing plate and the threat to Soviet citizens inscribed on it constitute a gross violation of the sovereignty of the Soviet republics...