Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have always been dishonest concerns which rig their books to show $1 per share profit when actually there was no profit. But suppose an ultra-conservative concern, by scaling its assets to minimum and carrying the liabilities at maximum, shows $1 per share profit when someone else thinks they might presumably have shown $2 per share profit; then the incentive to imagination and hence speculation is great and obvious...
...executive who paid more attention to the Market than to the work for which stock-holders presumably paid him. And thousands of independent little store owners and such have neglected their business with the result that they have sold less of the products of Big Business than they might have...
...That the constructive wizardry of Herbert Hoover ("great engineering works") might soon be exhibited to a waiting and ready people...
Taking a long farewell to amateur piano playing, Pianist Shotwell shrewdly announced, that she might henceforth be heard in vaudeville...
...wife, June, at a revival and married her because she was a Christian and lived as God wanted her to. We said grace at each meal. At breakfast one morning the idea occurred to me to kill her for fear she might stray from the Christian life. This plan was strengthened by the fact that I soon lost my job and was unable to care...