Word: profitable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Boston's short-wave WRUL observes the same moderation, but is more concerned with what President Walter Lemmon calls "morale relief" for Occupied Europe. A non-profit foundation that has as auxiliary staff the whole modern-language department at Harvard, WRUL has the blessing of the Donovan group for an extended cultural program which may cost about $500,000 this year-twice as much as NBC appropriates for short wave...
...name speakers to Harvard that small groups cannot hope to attract. It could organize thorough and frequent discussions on current affairs, which would not suffer from any partisan aims. It could prepare reading lists which might be used independently or in connection with tutorial work. Such a forum could profit from the experience of the American Civilization Program which was recently attempted in the Houses. If even a few students in each House could be interested in the extra-curricular study of American History, surely a large number would be enticed to a discussion of events going...
...help in national defense and to rebuild the post-war world. The errant scholars should be released entirely from their teaching positions for the duration of the emergency, and men who are willing to be full-time teachers should take over their work. National defense and Harvard would profit by the change...
...liberal price. . . . Your subcontractor must make a profit to stay with...
...towed back. The Pittsburgh middlemen squinted at Shreve's furs, offered him small change. Ignoring the tradition that Pittsburgh middlemen monopolized the fur trade with the East, Shreve loaded his furs on wagons, carted them over the snowy Alleghenies to Philadelphia, where he sold them at a fat profit...