Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...operative makes an average of about 20 cents on every dollar's worth of goods sold and that the average expense involved in the sale of a dollar's worth of goods, including allowances for depreciation, etc., is about 15 cents. The business is therefore conducted on a narrow margin of net profit and a dividend of 8 per cent, would not be possible were it not for the large amount of sales to nonmembers who draw no dividends on their purchases, yet whose patronage contributes to the amount of net profit available for distribution to those purchasers...
...remedy these faults each man in the squad will be required to row at least once a week in a single shell. The single rowing helps each man to calculate his individual effectiveness and teaches him to balance a narrow boat. Single rowing, then, will be a part of the week's routine during the fall practice...
...dashes the Freshmen sprung a surprise; Cummin won the 100-yard dash by a narrow margin and Billings pulled away from the Yale runners in the 220, winning easily with Ranney second. The hurdles went to Yale; in the 120 Dupont finished second and undoubtedly would have placed in the 220 if he had not tripped...
...Saturday by the score of 3 to 2 in a fast spectacular game. In passing Hobart was superior, but the strong defence of the University team kept the score down. Hobart's throws at the goal were wild and a number of times goals were missed by a narrow margin. Harvard's defence, and one goal was made partly by luck...
...college men. This was the second of the series of lectures on the professions arranged by the Governing Board of the Union. The speaker said that he realized that business has not the glamour for the university man which is possessed by such professions as medicine, law, and engineering. Narrow-minded prejudice against trade is, however, giving way to a new order of judgment, a spirit of true democracy, which recognizes a man by his deeds. The management of the department store, in all its complicated details, requires the greatest of intelligence and foresight. Each department must be handled with...