Word: previously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professors in the Department of Economics protest against this influx of prospective millionaires. Moreover the reports of the Business School show that the previous field of concentration of their students has no effect on the quality of the work they produce. Men who concentrate in Economics for purely materialistic reasons obviously miss what they most hope to obtain...
...members of exchanges. Foreshadow of this decline in earnings was the sale last week of a New York Stock Exchange seat for $350,000, $144,000 under the price paid for the last seat sold. A New York Curb Exchange seat sold last week was $100,000 under the previous price, bringing to its seller but $150,000. On the basis of these new prices the 1,375 Stock Exchange seats have a valuation of $481,250,000, while the 550 Curb seats have a total...
...Reputedly the highest previous price paid for a living author's manuscript was $5,300, for Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly at the Quinn Sale in New York...
...Caravan is an interesting, sometimes an amusing, volume. It should shock more people than professors. This edition is an improvement on the two previous ones by being somewhat smaller...
...Italy, Central Europe, Great Britain. They are dangerous because "it so happens that the peoples who are already feeling keenly the need of new lands and resources are also the ones who are likely to have large increases [in population] for the next few decades," and "never has any previous civilization shown a rapacity that compares even remotely to our own." For instance: "The question of whether any white people should hold and exploit a tropical country with native labor as is now being done is going to become one of the burning questions. . . ." Segregation or wholesale deportation are poor...