Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report to the Council on the questions which are sufficiently ripe and on the procedure which might be followed with a view to preparing eventually for conferences for their solution...
...days when Mamma beamed her joy over the coveted "Ex" in deportment: No matter how gray the skies may hang over such courses as Philosophy A or Evolution 6, the mediocre but conscientious Tufts student can now know that the brightest of silver linings beams out from the old report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock rates the abhorred FF. Shunned by his believing classmates, his allowance cut-off mayhap from home...
...following quotation, one of the earliest known references to the "House" plan, is an excerpt from an address made by Charles Francis Adams '88 before the Columbia Phi Beta Kappa on June 12, 1906 in New York City. This address was mentioned by President Lowell in his annual report as one of the first instances of such a plan's being mentioned publicly...
...view of the highly technical, if not nebulous, value of the Byrd observations, the aerial discovery of the Rockefeller Jr. Mountains, Cook Tennant's Peak and Hal Flood Bay did not make a sensational newspaper story. Pure science is seldom sensational, and Commander Byrd's report clung to the phrase: "Another river crossed...
According to the 15X formula, Montgomery Ward, selling at 439⅞ on Nov. 30, 1928 should have reported about $29 per share earnings for 1928. The actual report showed earnings of $14.26 per share (figured without the new issue)-a gratifying increase but not proportional to the stock market price. Inasmuch as 15 times $14.26 is $213.90, Montgomery Ward earnings, justified no higher 1928 quotation than 214; or, from another standpoint, at 439⅞, Montgomery Ward was selling not at 15 times earnings but at 31 times earnings. Thus can a strong bull favorite make even "15X" look very conservative...