Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Index is of particular interest to me since I have for a number of years made a study of bank figures in attempting to analyze the business trend. I should like to congratulate you on this valuable addition to your Business & Finance section of TIME...
...Ways. If Charles Edison has a comparable ambition, it waits on time and infirmity. On the best of terms with their Assistant Secretary, Leahy & Admirals prefer to remain that way by keeping him strictly ashore, well out of naval planning and operation. His awakening interest in such matters as the Navy's troublesome promotion system, its mountainous red tape, its broadening spheres in the Atlantic and Pacific, have caused hardly a ripple in the "Annapolis Club" of naval officialdom...
Jack Robinson, crusty old publisher of the Jewett, Tex., Messenger, whose handset masthead reads: "We Guarantee to Interest, if Not to Please You." When the "shorts" (hard times) come to Leon County, Editor Robinson takes off his shirt, deserts his type cases and rusticates along the river-bottoms. Returning from such" a vacation last year he scared the day lights out of most of Jewett with accounts of a mythical half-beast, half-man he had encountered. Sample Robinson "Town Note": "Some more mules and wagons in Jewett Saturday afternoon and not many cars, a little money floating around among...
...possible-that is, the system will reach "thermodynamic equilibrium." Mathematically working out the conditions for equilibrium in mixed substances, Gibbs arrived at certain abstruse but beautifully logical rules of energy exchange. His work thus held the key to the efficient handling of mixed substances in industry. Gibbs had no interest in technology, and technologists took quite a while to uncover, understand and apply his work to their own problems. Now that this has been done, however, the Gibbs rules have enormously facilitated and cheapened a great variety of industrial processes-for example, in metallurgy, refrigeration, fuel and power engineering...
...House show that out of 7,112 students registered, 5,914 are affiliated with churches. Dean Sperry declares that these statistics indicate: "that our Universities, so far from being more irreligious than the world outside, can probably presuppose a greater familiarity with religion-at-large and a more serious interest in its concerns than is the case with the total population of the country...