Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seer who made the immortal observation that "it never rains but it pours." Could he but discover the name of that sooth-sayer, the Vagabond would--at least not wonder any longer and be able to give credit where it is due when the truth of the remark is manifestly clear...
Sirs: Apropos the British diplomatist's remark that "since the good God made us so that we all cannot get through the same door at once, there must be precedence," we have in our Washington contretemps what L. P. Jacks in Constructive Citizenship designates as among the deepest characteristics of the modern mind,-i. e. "an overdeveloped faculty for thinking in space, and an underdeveloped or perhaps decayed faculty for thinking in time. With space-thinking alone to guide us we are apt to think our work done when we have devised a social scheme, system, or envisaged-diagram...
...Place for Fish has not stood so high. Amoskeag's 1928 report was last week read by Amoskeag Treasurer Frederic Christopher Dumaine. Outstanding feature of the report was Treasurer Du-maine's promise to "keep the mills running here as long as I can." Ominous was this remark, yet apparently not unjustified. The report showed a loss from operations of $960,698. Among expenses were some $860,000 interest on bonds, $700,000 local taxes, $1,000,000 repairs, $337,000 for new machinery, $95,000 for moving machinery from Fitchburg to Manchester. Other items were bad debts...
...that even at 20% money was not available. Thus the Mitchell announcement stabilized the market, much to the disgust of the Federal Reserve Board, which had been rubbing its hands over the money scarcity that its influence had helped produce. That was why Senator Glass made his "face slapping" remark and tried to read Banker Mitchell out of the Federal Reserve System. What with the Glass outburst and a Federal Reserve Board meeting, the market began April in a nervous condition, and stock averages sweated off over four or five points while call money got up to 15%. The Board...
...more sound statements made by Harvard Club presidents in answer to the query of the Boston Transcript as to whether graduates favor the House Plan or not emphasizes the point that "possibly the older alumni are more in sympathy with the plan than recent graduates." The significance of this remark cannot be overlooked in a consideration of the graduate attitude toward the forthcoming experiment...