Word: profits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." President Lowell in his Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating class in Appleton Chapel yesterday forsaw the possibility of such tragedy when he took for his text the pessimistic words of the Preacher and King of Jerusalem, "What profit hath a man of all his labor that he taketh under the sun?" But the President spoke well for the present as well, when he advised against future disappointment with a study of the nature of man's labor and the profit to be obtained therefrom...
...Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and the Caspian Seas. He was to pay the Soviet Government $3 for each ton of manganese mined and to rebuild a railroad from Tiflis to Poti. He had to produce at least 500 tons of manganese a year in order to make a profit on his investment...
...made and agreed to by the State that "the liability of the said defendant, Len Small, in this case is solely for interest received by the other defendants herein." In other words, though Treasurer Small, by virtue of his office, could be held liable for the bank's profit from its handling of state funds, he personally was acquitted of having received a portion of those profits for his own benefit, advancement or pleasure...
...roving actor, William Kilpatrick, 40, who had settled down as a dentist's assistant in Africa, held Call Boy's ticket in the Calcutta sweepstakes. It paid $814,800.* Cautious Mr. Kilpatiick had sold half of his ticket to a syndicate for $50,000, so his personal profit was only $457,400. William Jones, 60, retired clerk living peacefully at Felixtowe, won the Stock Exchange sweepstakes of $363,750 after selling three-quarters of his ticket...
...some cases in an intensified form, into preparatory schools. Now, in the colleges at least, the tide has definitely turned. Extra-curricular activities are now seen in their natural light--not as so many high-roads to undergraduate glory, but as occupations for the sole benefit and profit of those who are genuinely interested in them...