Word: output
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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...gross profits of the year from the sales of merchandise amounted to $69,521.05 or 18.38 per cent. of the total. output. Thus the Co-operative realized a gross earning of about 18 cents upon every dollar's worth of goods sold. Income from members' fees and other incidental sources amounted to $7,000.66, so that the gross income for the fiscal year was $76,521.71. The general expenses of business, including wages, taxes, insurance, allowances for depreciation, reserves, etc., amounted to $57,586.57, or 15.23 per cent. of total sales. Thus it cost the Co-operative, for all charges...
...recently appeared the climax of feeble-minded absurdity, entitled "The Harvard Low-Life." We have omitted mention of this latest output till now for the reason that not until yesterday was it seen on sale in one of the most conspicuous newstands of Boston. "The Harvard Low-Life"--a title which alone is disgraceful--is the most mercenary scheme of this sort that has yet seen the light. The advertisements are filled in with "news" and "jokes" which are puerile, cheap, and asinine. The paper is without justification of any kind...
...superlative is attained by Mr. Aiken's poem. "To a Head in Marble." The other verses in this number are better than the average output of magazines, but they are characterized too much by the attitude of the undergraduate who cries out, "Lo! I will write a poem," and then sets about thinking up a subject. There is nothing of the perfunctory about Mr. Aiken's verses; the emotion comes first and demands expression in verse as its natural medium. Though marred here and there by defective or immature technique, as in spots where the author seems hampered...