Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decline in output there has been an increase of 21 per cent in shipments, showing that this extra shipping must have come from the manufacturers surplus. It is true that during the last few months there has been a marked increase in output, but it would be erroneous to interpret this is a readjustment in prices. Labor is a most important factor in the manufacturing market and wages are an almost inflexible element. In other words the retail price situation and present absorption of goods, seem to be such as to offer much resistance to radical reductions of modities...
Just at this moment the function of the true preacher is appreciated more widely than ever before. He is to interpret the new age. Harvard is fortunate in having Dr. Fosdick to speak in behalf of the ministry. the nature of the demand is best exemplified in his person. We want more of this kind. If we had them the church could soon rise again to its place of moral and intellectual leadership in the community. There ought to be a good many young men in college who are fitted by nature for this kind of work...
...ready-made methods that will fit all the circumstances throughout the country. We cannot find any genuine substitute for the individual initiative, imagination, and foresight which always have been essential for business success. The big task is to get real facts and collective experience which the individual merchant can interpret and apply to the management of his business...
Another unfortunate fact is that many persons have gone at the science of geology in a half-hearted manner, either ignoring the education that a geologist must necessarily have in order to interpret conditions rightly, or by patronizing divining rod "experts", pseudo-geologists or fakirs. All university men know that it is not sufficient to call one's self a "geologist" to be one; a pains-taking study is necessary of all the fundamental branches of geology, chemistry, physics and engineering before one can even appreciate the rudiments of petroleum geology. For instance, in the case of the writer, four...
...noted racehorse "Starlight", brought to the hero's smithy to be shod. He was the center of attention for some moments, as he filled the part and kept his little jockey busy holding him in hand. The play moves easily along to an exciting last act, and the players interpret the Irish characters with a sympathy that completely won the appreciation of their audience...