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Most big shopkeepers admit that a "loss leader" is sometimes good business. Customers attracted to a store by the cut-rate price of one product linger to buy other products on which the store can make a profit. But "loss leaders" become a large hole in the profit bucket when customers throng a store to buy only the "loss leader" and nothing else. Forcefully last week was this axiom brought home to scores of cut-rate storekeepers in Los Angeles, home of some of the fiercest price wars...
...even no greater Christian ruler than St. Louis." For the Christian the XIIIth is unquestionably the greatest of centuries, and Mr. Dawson's discussion of the elements in the whole prior development which culminated in that age is at once masterly and full. One would like, above all to linger over more of his statements than this: "The end of (Greek) science was not to do but to know: felix qui potuit rorum cognoscore causas. The reward of the scientist was to share the blessedness of the immortal gods who are eternally satisfied with the contemplation of the ordered course...
...experiments will come; old customs will linger by the wayside. The college student simply closes his textbooks at the close of his short journey on an unfinished story of life with its conflict, suffering, and struggle for happiness. The pages that we learn about today will still be there, but new pages in life's experience will be added day by day. Balzac and Longfellow and Bach and Michael Angelo--these will still be on life's pages long after the texts are closed; Roosevelt and Hitler and Doumergue, too, will have filled their niche. But the world moves...
...dames are temporary flames to you Dames, you don't recall their names, do you? But their caresses and home addresses Linger in your memory. ?"Dames...
King George likes "God Save the King" so well that royal bands now linger over it at an officially slowed tempo, but Edward of Wales is always trying to hurry them through his hymn with its lugubrious refrain...