Word: persistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flandrau's well-known "Diary of a Freshman" and "Harvard Episodes", and other delightful memoirs of the same kind go more or less deeply into the undergraduate life, the pursuits of the students, and the quaint customs, like carving the benches of Sever, which became so firmly rooted and persist with such remarkable vitality...
...lowest in 16 months, and at the current rate of production is enough to keep the plants going about five months. The new orders received during the month amounted to about 700,000 tons, of which 200,000 tons were railroad orders. At this rate, should it persist, plants could be operated at only about 50% of their present capacity. The company has accordingly reduced operations to about 85% capacity, as compared with 70 to 75% for the independent companies...
William G. McAdoo, it is anticipated, will reach the Democratic Convention with far more votes than anyone else, but political prognosticators persist, as they have done for some time, in declaring that Mr. McAdoo will not be able to gain any votes once he enters the Convention -because all those who are not for McAdoo are very much against him. It follows, if that is true, that he cannot get the nomination, for which a two-thirds vote is necessary. Nevertheless, supporters of McAdoo are not downhearted. Recently Samuel B. Amidon, Democratic National Committeeman, sailed for Europe...
There are several plays well known to the American theatregoer now running in London. Pauline Lord and Anna Christie are at the Strand. E. U. R. and its robots persist at the St. Martin's. The British edition of the Music Box Revue at the Palace, So This Is London! at the Prince of Wales, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Partners Again, Secrets, a New Yorker could almost spend every night of a week in London seeing plays he had already seen in America, Though why he should is, of course, quite another matter. And then there is From Dover Street...
...preventing undue reduction of net income by deduction of losses is equally possible and even more desirable as it is estimated that there is a heavy loss of tax revenue from this cause. But in this matter, as in other matters, legislation is no panacea. Ways of escape will persist, in spite of legislation, and will be availed of, as long as there is sufficient inducement. No matter what gaps are stopped by acts of Congress, the output of tax-exempt securities by states and municipalities will continue to afford an easy escape from all federal income surtaxes. This broad...