Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both. If it is impractical to install traffic lights on Massachusetts Avenue in the vicinity of Widener, an underpass should be constructed somewhere between Plympton and Holyoke Streets. This move, plus a stricter enforcement of traffic regulations by the ubiquitous blue-coats are years overdue. Further delay would show gross ingratitude to the goddess of fortune for her past favors...
More to Come. This week, LIFE expected to sell over 5,350,000 copies-and the saturation point was still ahead. In audience (22,550,000) and gross advertising revenue (around $52,000,000 this year) it had surpassed even the sturdy Saturday Evening Post...
...know how to keep books and 2) they couldn't afford a part-time bookkeeper to do the job. Why not, thought Hession, a mail order service which would charge a small fee to keep the books? ($15 a month for businesses with a $25,000 annual gross and $5 a month more for each additional $25,000.) Silverman liked "Mail-Me-Monday" so well that he bought the idea for $5,000 in Postwar Investment stock, set up a subsidiary, Accounting Corp. of America...
These are only surface defects. Beneath them are other faults far more important. The poll, as written, and interpreted by the Crimson, was guilty of gross misrepresentation. No one who has seriously studied the problem of Council membership has proposed a continuation of complete class representation, yet the Crimson included it as a major alternative on their poll. The Constitutional Committee from the very first agreed that the old proportion of appointed and elected representatives is unbalanced, yet the Crimson also threw this in. The Committee decided that the principle of complete student government, with its accompanying corollaries including legislative...
Under the proposed plan, "the gross rental, exclusive of the furniture rental, may be adjusted to 25 percent of the total not family aggregate income." In no cases, however, will rents be adjusted to less than $38 for the one bedroom unit, $41 for the two bedroom unit, and $44 for the three bedroom unit...