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Professor Coolidge is a 100 percent Bostonian and a bicycle enthusiast. He was born in 1873, graduated in the Class of 1895, and began teaching Mathematics two years later at Groton School. He moved to Harvard in 1900, became a professor in 1918 after winning the Cross of the Legion of Honor in France. Now head of the department of Mathematics and periodical (average every five years) author, he is one of the best known, mathematicians in the world. After writing on the Complex Domain (1924), he does not find it hard to count his eight children...
...estimated at $59,983,000,000,* consumers at 41,000,000 family units and individuals. Of 29,400,300 families spending nearly $48,000,000,000, the survey showed 14% getting under $500 a year, 42% under $1,000, 65% under $1,500, 87% under $2,500. Ten percent had incomes from $2,500 up to $5,000; only 1%, $10,000 or over. Individuals had practically an identical income range. Lumping the two, Dr. Kneeland found that 32% of the total had annual incomes under $750, 47% under $1,000, 69% less than...
...cards are to be white and red-white for the 90-odd percent of farmers who presumably are complying with AAA's acreage control program; red for approximately 250,000 noncomplying individualists...
...Francisco and Los Angeles together account for two percent of the U. S. book business. At the Emporium in San Francisco two children's books, Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand, outsold popular novels; at Bullock's in Los Angeles The Yearling and The Citadel were crowded hard by Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Emily Post's Etiquette...
...Atlanta, Ga. and Dallas, Tex., accounting for less than one percent of the U. S. book business between them, the best-seller was Gwen Bristow's romantic Southern novel, The Handsome Road, although The Importance of Living sold better at the new five-story Cokesbury Book Store in Dallas than it did in Washington and Cleveland stores...