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...improvement of operating figures by greatly increased sales to be expected from the rising purchasing power of the public. That is good economics and good business. . . . If we now inflate prices as fast and as far as we increase wages the whole project will be set at naught. . . . If we can . . . start a strong sound upward spiral of business activity our industries will have little doubt of black-ink operations in the last quarter of this year...
...been her audience chamber. (Virgil refers to its concavity.) From that chamber radiated three small passageways leading to three pools where the Sibyl bathed before going through her leafy mysteries. Dr. Maiuri, delighted by the reality of what for 2,400 years had been deemed legend, stood silent, heard naught but the clop clop of water dripping from the crevices of the Cumaean Rock...
...Teachers should bear their due part in the general public economy program, but they should do so through contribution rather than through salary reduction on the books, lest the years of struggle that have gone into securing teachers a living wage in this country be set at naught...
...recollections of those privileged to row in that remarkable boat. Has the present generation forgotten that breath-taking race against Dunster House for the Thunder Mug (the original gold plated porcelain trophy) when number 7 jumped from his slide at the second stroke but counted his flesh as naught against the race? Or the famous regatta in which the Bell-boys, their whiskers blowing to the winds and their derbies cocked proudly, rowed through the whole fleet to the plaudits of all (as one spectator was heard to remark: ". . . and they could even row!")? Sir, the old days may have...
Yale, more erratic, yet with a better scoring record than the Crimson, chose to adopt practically a five-man defense against her foe, last week-end. These tactics set at naught the almost astonishing team-work of the Harvard forwards and contrived to tire the Crimson players. Harvard undoubtedly showed greater control of the puck, but had it not been for the watchful defense work of Crosby, MacGregor, and deGive, the sallies of Fletcher, Cookman, and Bostwick, might well have skyrocketed the Yale score to a winning figure. Only by sending in Putnam, able puck-carrier, at right defense...