Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Index is of particular interest to me since I have for a number of years made a study of bank figures in attempting to analyze the business trend. I should like to congratulate you on this valuable addition to your Business & Finance section of TIME...
...Skinner Theory is based on the fact that, before a car is bought, a truckload of goods is shipped, a bridge built, money usually changes hands. Working from weekly bank statements, Mr. Skinner has evolved a number of formulas for watching this financial ebb & flow as it relates to various factors such as stock prices, bond prices, commodity prices, etc. TIME applies this same method not as a measure of business volume but of business' financial soundness-i.e., an Index of Business Conditions. The resulting Index differs radically from the several specialized indexes Mr. Skinner has developed...
Although five out of the nine encounters were exciting five game gruellers, most spectacular of all the matches was Kim Kanavarro's smashing victory over Yale's number one star M. Muir 15-11, 15-8, 15-0. In the last game Kanavarro literally smothered his opponent with a barrage of furious service aces. Equally impressive was the cool determination of Captain George B. Blake '39 as he fought to victory after it had eluded him by the closest of margins in the third and fourth games where Harding staged a valiant comeback...
...first four matches to be played Harvard moved out ahead three matches to one. Besides Captain Blake's victory, James Rousmaniere '40, at number three position was at the top of his game in trouncing R. Houck in straight games 15-4, 15-11, 18-14. Daniel Ladd at number four needed all his finesse to overcome J. Ferguson in five heated games...
...reported. The total attendance last year at 208 such services was 14,135, an average of 68 per service. The average previously was 58. He also announced the formation of a new "Chapel Club" among the undergraduates attending the services. A membership of about 50 has enlisted and a number of meetings have been held throughout the year for the discussion or religious questions...