Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...public. In order to pay dividends on a capitalization of from two to six times the cost of the plant, prices are some times put considerably above competitive rates, and if the organization has acquired a virtual monopoly, it is often enabled to hold these rates for a considerable period...
...change in a degree interfered with the business, but the condition of the accounts at present indicates that the venture has resulted successfully. The total sales since the beginning of the fiscal year, July 1, have amounted to $32,286.12, as compared with $28,735.59 for a corresponding period last year--an increase of $3,550.53. The increase in expenses over last year is approximately estimated...
This subject may be summed up by the statement that thirty years have practically seen the establishment of definite systems of physical training and a great improvement in the general physical welfare of students; that during this period out-door sports have, like the swing of a pendulum, carried the men from inordinate study to excessive athletic training and back again to a more sensible adjustment between such studies and sports. It is only of late years that we have begun to settle down to this reasonable adjustment. During all these years both physical training and out-door sports have...
Belgian literature had its beginning in 1880, and this is also the period of the minor reviews, among them "La Jeune Belgique," "L'Art Moderne," "Floreal," and "Le Coq Rouge." In the work of the revival of French in Belgium, the prose writers also play a part,--besides Charles Lemonnier there were many excellent writers, who in short tales and novels told stories of Flemish life. At the outset of the symbolistic movement, the Belgian poets separated into two parties--the conservatives, who accepted the theories of the Parnassieus; and the ultra-symbolists. The dramas of Maeterlinck are the works...
...play was written about 1618 and held the stage a number of years, being probably the most popular comedy of that period. Like "Romeo and Juliet" it depicts the adventures of two members of warring families, who fall in love with each other. Although the play is published among the works of Beaumont and Fletcher, many scholars believe it to have been written, in part at least, by Rowley...