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...surplus so that earlier that year dividends on common stock had to be suspended. It seemed to President Julius Rosenwald and his associates that, to balance on the year, they would have to write off inventories hugely, pass dividends and even levy on holders of common stock some fraction of their stocks. Now these gentlemen knew that much of the common stock was owned by employes of the company who, more than usual investors, would be hurt. To such levy there was of course the resource of all business people in such a quandary, to borrow on all free real...
...peculiar situation in which Austria finds itself makes some kind of action necessary. Pared down to a fraction of its former size, faced on three sides by recently subject and vajuely hostile peoples in Hungary, Jugo-Slavia, and Czech-Slovakia, the Austrians naturally look in the fourth direction for help and find the racial and historical affinities of the German republic offering them an obvious solution. It is impossible to prephesy what would be the result on the European political situation if Germany were to be reinforced by this considerable homogeneous addition. Yet the more one contemplates the situation...
...What was the apparent altitude of the meteor when first seen? When last seen? This does not ask for the altitude in feet, but for an estimate of the angular altitude, as such a fraction of the distance from the horizon to the zenith, or in degrees...
...chest swelling beneath a row of ribbands, came up attended by his wife, sister, father-in-law. The crowd cheered for "Billy" Mitchell. He went into the building bowing to friends hither and yon. In the court room within were batteries of cameras, reporters, learned counsel, and a small fraction of the "public." Promptly at 10 a. m. a grizzled sergeant rose and called "Stand up!" The crowd rose and filed the Court of twelve generals led by Major General Summerall...
This evil is magnified in a large college. Scholastic achievement is in its nature a quiet and cloistered honor. It may penetrate as far as intimate friends but such a circle is of necessity a small fraction of the enrolment...