Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems that of these factors the most important is the first, which of course affects the item of living conditions, in the third. The other conditions are doubtless factors, but not of controlling importance. (For example, North Carolina now spends more than three times as much per year for Negro education as it spent on all education in 1900, yet 30,000 Negroes have left the state since last April...
...Significance. Mr. Leacock is a humorist but not a wit?he seeks for and obtains the abrupt and hearty laugh rather than the oh-so-sophisticated smile. But while occasionally stereotyped and sometimes a trifle repetitious he maintains on the whole a pretty high average of chuckles to the item. He is probably the most popular living humorous writer in English, for his work deals in the main with matters of commonplace experience made unexpectedly ludicrous by the angle from which he attacks them...
...balance sheet of the company, although containing among its assets the item of $19,807,276 as " trade name and good will," shows a sound and healthy condition, with a special surplus of $4,455,000, and a general surplus of $19,165,685 as against...
...most important item on the agenda is the transfer to Japan of the northern half of Sakhalin Island, property of the Soviet Government. This island, known to the Japanese as Karafuto, is situated to the east of Siberia and to the north of Yezo, northernmost island of the Japanese Empire...
...Parsons estimated Woolworth sales for 1923 at $180,000,000, compared with a gross of $167,000,000 for 1922. The Company has no bonded indebtedness; it retired last February 100,000 shares of preferred stock at 125 by paying out $12,500,000; also, during 1922 the item of "goodwill" in its statement was reduced from $50,000,000 to $30,000,000 by the use of $20,000,000 from profit-and-loss surplus...