Word: uses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred thousand volumes, chiefly monographs and bound periodicals, provide an excellent working library for the student of present-day business or the investigator into business history. For the use of the former, provision is made--especially in the Baker Room of the Library--for the acquisition of the better sources of current information on finance, commodity movement, and the like, whether such material be of governmental or private origin. The Library believes its primary obligation that of creating and maintaining this assembly of reference data on contemporary business activity...
With the completion of the new gymnasium near at hand providing vastly increased facilities for undergraduate indoor sports, a backward glance draws attention to the disposition of the old Hemenway gymnasium. For although this building has been obviously inadequate to the demand, there are numerous opportunities for use, of primary interest to the great body of graduate students, whose heritage in part it will soon become...
Dean Donham will speak again at 4 o'clock tomorrow in the same place on the subject of the administration of the school. At 9 o'clock on Saturday Dr. Cole will discuss the facilities and use of the library...
Sunlight Soap, made from vegetable oils and superior to the tallow soaps then (1885) generally in use, was almost immediately successful, became inside of three years the largest selling soap in the United Kingdom. In 1887 Soapman Lever reclaimed a large area of swampy land along the Mersey River and built Port Sunlight, perhaps the earliest instance of the paternal industrialism it represents...
...poor compliment to her to say that she was a business woman. "She was a womanly woman and her knowledge of business was nil." During the last few years of his life he rose at 4:30 a. m., spent 20 minutes in exercises, anticipated Calvin Coolidge in the use of an electric horse. For some years, however, he rode each morning a flesh-and-blood horse, always went the same distance on the same roads, and even changed from a walk to a trot and back to a walk again at exactly the same places. Daily he read from...