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...much, or subtract so much, from these emotional and psychological necessities...It isn't a matter of just human materialism...It's going to be an increased satisfaction to our customers, if we are happy...It's going to pay off in cold dollars and cents to management if we could put some of these general principles of values, human relationships, really into practice...It is going to make a lot more people have a chance not only to make a living but to make a life...
...coefficient of friction (always present in American homes), multiply that by 3.49 for expansion (especially in hot and humid weather), multiply this by 5.11, the number of wage earners per family, add 58.9% to give a 'guns-and-butter' ratio for 1953 in terms of 1939 dollars, subtract 101, the approximate number of newspaper readers who 'never look at pictures.'" Grand total: 1,168,806,315, "the exact figure we had in mind all along...
...decision of the faculty to permit women in the dorms until eleven o'clock on Saturday night seems very unsatisfactory to me, for in granting thi concession, they somehow felt obliged to subtract another eighteen hours during the week. Many of us have come to a appreciate these afternoon hours, especially on Friday afternoons when we were able to listen to the B.S.O. Concerts which begin at two, and on Saturday, when we were not obliged to go to the football games for something...
...spend our money. It is altogether anguish and torture that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot evade, we cannot cheat, we cannot underestimate this tax. The collectors, clever and sly, who compute here, have gone far beyond our poor power to add and subtract...
...Subtract 8 days, 23 hours and 31 minutes from 29 days, 15 hours and 7 minutes...