Word: trade
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bureau of Business Research of the Graduate School of Business Administration has published a pamphlet on "Expenses in Operating Retail Grocery Stores," which has proved a great success. Although more than 4,000 copies have been mailed to grocery retailers, wholesalers, trade associations and accountants, there is still a demand for them, and their value is attested by numerous appreciative letters which have been received...
...choice of a vocation might be found for more men if the possibilities of South America were given more consideration. Argentine exports more corn than any other country and South America is the leading cattle raising region of the world. This vast agricultural territory is dependent mainly on foreign trade for its manufactures; and now that the war has interfered with Europe's monopoly of this market, an opportunity, much talked of but little appreciated, has been given to Americans to secure a foothold...
...Student Council has a number of trade advertisements from the University Register which it desires to dispose of as soon as possible to members of the Student Council. These advertisements, which are on well-known Boston firms, carry an average discount of about twenty-five per cent. Men who desire to take advantage of this opportunity to secure a discount on purchases at these stores of approximately this amount should apply to R. H. Stiles '16, Matthews...
...MacCracken, in his inaugural address yesterday as president of Vassar, called attention to the concentration and purpose with which students in professional and trades schools pursue their studies. Evidence of this is afforded every day in the University. The seriousness and industry of law and business school men is often a revelation to the undergraduate who is bent on enjoying his "four years' loaf." President MacCracken attributes this spirit to self-interest: "The trade, the profession, the definite pursuit, beckon instinctively every hour...
...general, the term is used to denote something distinct from a command of the tools of one's trade. The lawyer, for example, or the physician, or the engineer, may have a complete mastery of all the technical learning of his profession without possessing culture. This is evident at once when he comes into contact with men of other professions. He may talk profoundly about his own subject, but have nothing intellectual in common with the other men if he lives within the four walls of his own occupation and his vision is strictly limited thereby...