Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Number 1 (Object and History of the Bureau with Some Preliminary Figures on the Retailing of Shoes) was issued in May, 1913, based on the records of 130 stores that were fully comparable. In this bulletin were given the highest and lowest operating figures found for ten items--gross profit, total operating expense, delivery expense, stock-turn etc. Normal figures for these items were given, and, still further, figures were set as standards generally attainable because already attained by an efficient group large enough to be significant. It is in the providing of standards that the Bureau performs its greatest...
...total business for the first year of its existence being nearly $50,000. A few instances of books that have justified their publication by the University may be mentioned. A technical treatise for lumbermen, declined by every commercial publisher to whom it was submitted, has made a handsome profit, but more important for the University has been the fact that it has won the warm commendation of woodsmen in all parts of the country (some 2500 having secured it) and that it has contributed not a little to the reputation of the School of Forestry. A fairly expensive volume...
...world is full of embryo journalists who will profit by reading what Mr. Kline says about journalism in today's CRIMSON...
...result of these investigations, the commission, aided by Professor Ford, made ten suggestions for legislation, seven of which are already drawn up as bills. Such remedies as state prohibition and the elimination of private profit from the sale of liquor, were considered as not directly feasible, and the commission's proposals chiefly had to do with the enforcement of existing laws, amendments to existing statutes, and with the training of public opinion by temperance instruction in the schools. In summing up the report, it was submitted that mere imprisonment is an inadequate treatment for inebriety, that it is greatly desirable...
...great man has well said that one of the most pathetic things in life is the small amount of the experiences of one generation which can be communicated to the next so that it will profit by them. Certainly, however, 1914 has absorbed some wisdom from 1914's hard-earned stock. And now in its last days of infirmity, impoverished by innumerable class dues, 1914 seeks one day free from tumult and responsibility. As it is the duty of children to make glad the declining years of their parents, so should it be the pleasure of Freshmen to make possible...