Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clubs shall urge their members to change the elections to the Institute of 1770 so that the membership therein shall be increased to at least 150 men from each class, and that they shall be initiated therein at the rate of at least 15 men a week, beginning as early as possible in the sophomore year...
...Government, so the report runs, was on the verge of driving men to work at the point of the bayonet, for the skilled workmen are slipping back to the land, where they can find a living, at any rate. Lenin has intervened, enjoining them to work, not for the zest of it, but for the triumph of their Soviet system. "Grin and bear it" is the suggested refrain of his hopeless hymn, which anticipates the coming of the night when there will be no more work because there will be no money to pay the workers. "They cannot live without...
...that a read-justment of operating expenses is necessary to restore net profit to normal in this business. The average net profit realized in the department store trade in 1921 was 1.3 per cent, of net sales, which is considered too small. The bureau also discovered that a rapid rate of stock-turn is fully as important in department stores as in other businesses...
...limited number of books, chiefly French, German, and Spanish readers, are on hand and will be loaned for the year in accordance with the regular system of deposit. One change has however, been made this year. It has been decided that a uniform rate of 25 cents a copy will be charged as deposit, all of which except five cents a copy for expenses will be returned on receipt of the borrowed copy. The decision to fix a uniform rate instead of the 10, 15, and 25 cents per copy, comes as a result of the growing tendency...
...College an equal chance to secure necessary books. It has been decided that a uniform deposit of 25 cents will be required this year, all of which minus five cents a copy or expenses, will be returned on receipt of the borrowed copy. The decision to fix a uniform rate instead of the former scale of 10, 15, and 25 cents per copy, comes as a result of the growing tendency not to return books on which only a small deposit has been made; the actual expense to the borrower remains in all cases the same...