Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nathaniel Bowditch made his fortune as actuary of the Massachusetts Life Insurance Co.; his fame, as translator-commentator of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste. Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch increased his patrimony by practicing law in Boston. He wrote his father's biography. His brother was Henry Ingersoll (all Nathaniel's children had Ingersoll for middle name) Bowditch (1808-92), Harvard medical professor, discoverer of the "all-or-nothing" reaction of the heart muscle,* inventor of a way to drain chests in pleurisy. The only Bowditch now living sufficiently famed for Who's Who recognition...
Business men, said he last week, should be licensed. The prospective retailer should be given an examination in stock turnover, in markups, in cash discounts, in keeping books. According to Professor Converse, the average corporate life is less than six years and from 45% to 50% of retailers vanish from the merchandising world in less than five years...
...replaced, some millions of 4-cylinder Chevrolets that have become antiquated by the Chevrolet shift from a Four to a Six, and four million 1923 models of all makes that have rounded out the six years of service after which the average automobile retains no great expectation of life. It is estimated that 15% of U. S. families have two automobiles and 8% have three. Exported automobiles totaled 13.7% of production in 1928, should greatly increase in 1929. Thus the demand for the motorcar remains healthy, and Hoover prosperity is expected to provide the purchase price...
...bribery and corruption. Out of the six leading nations in the world, the nation in which bribery and corruption are most rife is the nation which has the most women teachers. America is loaded with bribery in its very vitals, its Parliamentary [Congressional], its municipal, its commercial and financial life. It is more than a coincidence that in that country teaching is feminine...
...last week, in sunny congress on a California hilltop at the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway, overlooking the burnished haze of San Francisco. There stands California's memorial to her War dead, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, an edifice filled with many treasures, including the life of Joan of Arc in Gobelin tapestries, gift of France...