Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next step is that of Assistant Buyer for a single department, i.e., drugs, men's shirts, toys, etc. Here he learns about buying merchandise, price mark-ups and mark-downs, and is initiated into the mystery of style trends and the actual bargaining which is merchandising. A man who has achieved the rank of Assistant Buyer may reasonably expect to become a Department Buyer some...
Contracting severe leg cramps at the 12 mile mark in the North Medford Club 20 mile race Saturday, the cross-country captain managed to last out 19 1/2 miles by pure grit. Overcome by exhaustion at this point, he wavered from the track and collided with a tree. After recovery at a nearby house, the verteran harrier announced that henceforth he would stick to the two mile...
...student committee of three formed to investigate the class cut system at Amherst. He was the only member of this committee to agree with the faculty committee on a change to an unlimited cut system. Freshman year he won the honored Porter Admission Prize for the highest mark on an examination in Latin, mathematics and English. At the end of his sophomore year he was awarded the honored John Sumner Runnels Prize for "zeal for knowledge and industry to attain...
That scholar was Harry Thurston Peck, famed as a classicist, as an editor (The Bookman, The International Encyclopedia), as a fractiously brilliant historian whose Twenty Years of the Republic inspired Mark Sullivan's contemporary Our Times. Professor Peck's wit and flowering waistcoats had excited a full generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship...
...centre of this amazingly decentralized Westinghouse organization employing 35,000 workers sits Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson, a 56-year-old onetime school teacher who made his mark operating Pittsburgh's street car system. He stepped into Westinghouse in 1929. In the report last week President Frank Anderson Merrick joined Chairman Robertson in predicting: "Unforeseen events may change estimates for better or for worse; but, to the best of our judgment, 1936 should be a fairly prosperous year. We are making plans accordingly...