Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Farnam encloses with her letter a newspaper clipping stating that so little beer has been consumed in the Harvard dining halls that the gross profit derived from the sale of it is only a little over half the amount required to pay for the license. On an average, only one bottle of beer per man per three-week period has been ordered in the halls.--Editor...
Divorced. Catherine Kresge, Baroness Wijk; from Baron Carl Carlson Wijk; in Detroit. Charges: Baron Wijk was "cold, sullen, morose, habitually indulged in gross and objectionable vulgarity...
Hitherto General Mitchell has confined his barbs largely to the Army air service. Last week he took a few potshots at the Navy as well. The Navy's aircraft carriers, said he, were "floating bombshells." The Shenandoah and Akron disasters were due to "gross stupidity" and "disgraceful" incompetence. For lighter-than-air craft in general he had the highest regard. Fifty dirigibles competently handled, he declared, would need only two days to destroy Japan, which he described as "our greatest enemy...
...gentlemen, if you meet the weekly payroll with cash, you must credit to the asset cash and debit to the expense account which is equity, of course, since expense is a debit item under the gross revenue account. Thus a deduction from cash can be accompanied by a debit entry in the other accounts, but the credit of cash must be accompanied by debit items. But if you paid at the beginning of the week, then you would debit the labor and credit cash, that is debit an asset and also credit an asset...
...three-inch design of a locomotive. Other items: a camel tie clasp, a collar button representing an early airplane. In a forthcoming biography of "Diamond Jim" Brady, Jeweler Parker Morell estimates that at the time of Mr. Brady's death, War had brought his collection's gross appraised value down to $507,445.10, adds: "Today, Diamond Jim's jewels are being worn by thousands of unsuspecting women...