Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trade, a uniform accounting system of shoe wholesalers was published in July as a result of an investigation of this branch of the trade. There is at present in press a similar accounting system for wholesale grocers which will appear in about a month. Finally, a Harvard system of stock keeping for shoe retailers, on which the Bureau had been working for a couple of years, has recently been completed...
...order to make available for business men and students in the Business School the conclusions dawn from them toward the best practice known. The Bureau endeavors to find the best and most efficient methods of doing business and to impart the results obtained to the business world. The stock keeping system evolved by the Bureau is considered suited to all retailers, big and small, and embodies the best known practice...
...carried us through the outskirts of Verdun on to le Cabaret, our chief post, and occasionally to Ft. de Tavannes. This road seemed to be a centre of French batteries and consequently at times, for German shells, a distinctly undesirable situation, to say the least. We never took any stock in one of the Frenchmen who said: 'It isn't the shell you can hear you want to duck for, it's the one you can't hear that will cause the trouble.' When one sees Frenchmen of two years' experience dropping and ducking on hearing the whistle...
...that this year's conference will be decidedly worth while. Graduates and undergraduates of all the colleges are asked to co-operate by taking part, and Harvard should take a decided interest in the meeting, as it has in other forms of preparedness. We need most desperately to take stock of ideas and policies, as well as artillery and ships; we should make ready for the field of diplomacy, as well as for the field...
...college year and the conclusion of all courses, except for the final examinations, it is customary for men to look back over the year's work in order to take account of their intellectual stock. In the majority of cases the results fail to fulfill their earlier resolutions and expectations. Some have accumulated a store of facts which will be promptly forgotten after the examinations, while a few have been able to understand the relative purpose of a particular course and to obtain a little permanent enlightenment...