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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"2) Earnings over and above the efforts of labor and the use of money should be turned back into the business, one-fourth of the profits to be kept to keep the business progressing and the remainder returned to the members in proportion to the amount of business transacted."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Misquoted | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

However, it is the southeast side of the New Yard that harbors the chief of fenders. Robinson and Emerson, belonging to the begianing of the present century, and Sever, an atrocity of the early 80's are matched in inconsistency by Boylston Hall, which goes back to 1857 and sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Architectural Atrocities New and Old | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

To offset this gloomy inquest, one may delve into the writings of the modern apostle of moderation, Stuart P. Sherman. His happy philosophy sees in the new order of life a perfectly natural reaction against the complacency of the old regime which led to that inverted climax; the greatest war...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LITERARY DIAGNOSIS | 6/11/1926 | See Source »

Now that the second thought of several jurors has recommended a policy of moderation, the citizen censorship will no doubt operate with an increased sense of proportion. "The frauds of the future may be permitted a tolerant existence because "The Bunk of 1926" has become a Freudian martyr.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAUGHTY NICETIES | 6/10/1926 | See Source »

Men and institutions are as far a why from the just balance, the true proportion here as they are in other questions of social benefit. One can but remind that the minutiae of no one or even several subjects should be allowed to obscure a complete and philosophical out took...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAYSTACK | 6/8/1926 | See Source »

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