Word: incremental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dropped Freshmen for a large part of increased unsatisfactory Freshman records, Dean Hanford's recent report is mistaking cause in what is fundamentally an effect of more basic conditions. The question inevitably arises as to whence comes this increasing number of dropped and readmitted Freshmen responsible for the yearly increment of poor students. In order to have more and more of these persons unfitted for promotion to Sophomore standing one must be continually supplied at the beginning of Freshman year with more and more incapables. To say that the low standing of any given class is in a measure...
...first stock offering at 104. It was quoted even at the end of last week's market break at 222¼. Its capital and surplus six weeks ago was $100,000,000. Last week it was $122,000,000. As $15,776,000 of the $22,000,000 increment resulted from stock sales, there remained an additional $6,224,000 presumably representing trading profits of about a million per week...
...that he gives him his daughter as second wife. At this point, Temugin orders a census of his family. A eunuch (fad newly imported from Turkey) reviews 18 years of hearty domesticity, reports 84 women including the two wives, 178 children, of whom 65 have died, leaving a net increment...
...they are brought about by boards of trustees, being furthered by the country's highest type of "captain of industry"; notable to behold two men, who have made very definite contributions to what the country economically is, now in their graying prime bringing an intellectual increment to what the country, culturally, shall...
...shawl, bright symbol of protest. Her bee-stung mouth was another protest. Jason Graylock, rufous, crisp but unfound, came home from medical study to take care of his father. He thought he discovered his grip in Dorinda. For her, his charm, and love itself, were life's incredible increment. Wilting suddenly before old circumstances, Jason let himself be married to Geneva Ellwood, empty heiress. Out of this irresolution came, for Geneva, insanity and suicide; for him, drink, failure, consumption. Dorinda was first stunned by the blow, then slowly forged hard. She wandered in New York, fell (arbitrarily) into good...