Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straight face when a mere glance at the parking place shows the little its teachings are practised? President Lowell used to point with pride to the way Harvard's investments had been handled during the depression. what would he think of the University present internal economics? Aside from the gross injustice to the impecunious student, for whom the Parking Place was ostensibly created, it is hard to reconcile the management of the Lot with the prospect of slashes in the tutorial system. Far more money would accrue to Lehman Hall were the parking rate halved. In that event...
Last week railroad stocks sold down to a new low since April 1933. January earnings were thoroughly depressing. Though gross revenues were up slightly, net operating income of the first 51 roads to report showed a drop of 22%. That was a pronounced extension of a trend that set in during 1934 when the 147 Class I carriers reported a gain of nearly 6% in gross revenues, but a decrease of 2½% in net. Plainly, the U. S. Railroad System was boxed in its race against rising costs...
...dairy farms carry on an industry whose annual output is almost equal in value to that of petroleum and runs automobiles a close race. Its gross revenue of a billion and a half dollars exceeds that for all grains and vegetables combined, accounts for more than a quarter of total U. S. farm income. Its $7,000,000,000 worth of land, buildings and herds make it the No. 1 cash venture in agriculture. For cooking, drinking, canning, butter, cheese its 26,000,000 cows yield a hundred billion pounds of milk every year. Into the midst of this great...
...yard breast stroke--Won by Wolfson (B); second, Lawlor (B); third, Gross (A). Time...
...There is no question but that many funerals are gross exhibits of personal vanity, but to call all such expenditures "examples of barbarous superstition" is clearly a misstatement. Undoubtedly, in my mind, the way in which any nation disposes of its dead is a gauge of the cultural life of that nation. Funerals, I think-contrary to the general belief-are not conducted wholly to advertise the standing of the deceased, but as a demonstration of the esteem of the friends left behind...