Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubtful whether even 150 rubbers will prove anything as to comparative merits, since the result must also depend upon the distribution of the cards, the skill of the players. Both Culbertson and Lenz will get a great deal of advertising, and all bridge teachers will profit by having two systems to teach their pupils. Public interest in the match may also assist contract to withstand the onslaught of back: gammon as a leading indoor sport...
When Sewell Avery was made president of United States Gypsum in 1905 the company was four years old, he 31. He built it up steadily until earnings in 1925 and 1926 passed the $8,000,000 mark. A decline followed which carried profits down to $5,100,000 in 1929. For four years Gypsum engaged in a severe price-war with its big competitor Certain-Teed Products. Last year peace was declared, with Gypsum able to claim at least a moral victory. The result aided the company in making more money last year than in 1929 despite Depression...
Children of college professors, being brought up in an atmosphere of learning and culture, are peculiarly well fitted to profit from a college education. To them especially its advantages should be open. As a class, college professors are usually underpaid, and relieving them of the burden of tuition for their sons and daughters would be some compensation for the financial sacrifice involved in teaching...
...showing of pictures of this sort could become an institution on a non-profit making basis it would be certainly be supported by the college. Although the typical "Saturday Night" atmosphere of the boarding school must be carefully avoided there is a great deal to appeal to the college student...
...good doctor concern himself too much with symptoms and forget the disease, and it is just this that many are doing and publicly. The dining hall system is part of an experiment in unity, involving, to be sure, vivisection. The particular dog is not expected to profit greatly. An objection to the dining hall system is pretty much an objection to the purpose of the House Plan, and I daresay that one will be as unavailing as the other--for the time being, rightly so. Nobody, least of all the authorities empowered to act, will say that the evidence...