Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admission to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is granted to graduates of colleges and scientific schools of good standing who present satisfactory evidence of ability to pursue graduate work with profit. Such evidence may be graduation with distinction or in the upper third of the class, election to Phi Beta Kappa, or records that show distinguished work in a special field, either as undergraduates or as graduate students in other institutions. Applicants must also present satisfactory evidence of good character...
...that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences ranges itself with the faculties of the Medical School, the Law School, and the Business School in holding that the energies of its members are to be devoted to training a selected group of men who have already demonstrated their ability to profit by graduate study...
...official report he declared that of 210 persons tried before the Grand Jury of his county last year for maintaining public nuisances (in this case speakeasies), 205 pleaded guilty or were convicted. Cost of getting evidence: $50.000. Total of fines imposed: $70,000. Profit to Nassau County from these Prohibition activities...
...regular markets for British coal, except Spain, have this year taken larger supplies. . . . There is every reason to hope that the last quarter's figures will show a small profit for the whole year. . . . But very large mining areas are still working at a loss, while the profit for the whole country has been small." Though one would never suspect it by looking at the funereal unemployment map, some 50,000 more British miners have work now than during the same period a year ago, but some 150,000 miners remain jobless...
...dividend time last week but no dividends were declared, though in hand was 11,000,000 marks net profit for the year, a profit considered phenomenal in view of the current depression in German industry...