Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Industry has become the chief factor in the present life of America, and its increase in power as a means of improving the standard of living for all classes has been such as to lead to similar development all over the world. Its needs have been many, and the activities of the Business Schools that have sprung up in various parts of the country become more numerous and varied every year. For its reports on business conditions the Harvard Business School has become especially noteworthy. With the recent increase in numbers it has made another stride in advance...
...from the charitable. The Budget plan, introduced two years ago by the Finance Committee of the Student Council, centralized the collection and expenditure of money by undergraduates. The Class Funds, collections, church drives and eleemosynary canvasses were eliminated entirely and one initial request for a $ 5.00 subscription substituted. A similar method had already been adopted and successfully practiced at Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth...
Columnist Brisbane did more than grumble. He sneered: "Borrowers should send three large gilt balls to be hung above the Federal Reserve Bank entrance, and similar ornaments to some of the big banks." He threatened: "This is what the law of New York State says, Section 370: 'The legal rate of interest shall not be more than $6 on $100 for one year.' Every bank charging more than 6% interest is violating the law and knows...
...Hearst has a good memory. He knows that Mr. Smith once killed his political ambitions in New York State. The Hearst press has made similar attacks on the Smith integrity before now and Governor Smith once flayed Publisher Hearst as follows: "He has not got a drop of good, clean, pure, red blood in his whole body. And I know the 'color of his liver, and it is whiter, if that could be, than the driven snow. . . . That fellow nearly murdered my mother. . . . Foul, dirty pen . . . slimy ink. . . . Greatest living enemy of the people whose cause he pretends...
...come in handy if sent to you, and she said 'yes.' Therefore I decided to send you ten dollars which I earned this Summer by painting the piazza roof, washing the muresco off the walls and ceiling of the bathroom, weeding the garden and various other similar jobs. I thought you might be able to buy some extra things...