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...Does your college library, or any other depository of historical material in your immediate vicinity contain sufficient materials for a line of research that could be pursued with profit...
...President's indorsement was unique in that this newspaper is published with expectations, however slight, of profit. It charges $15 per year for a subscription by mail, and accepts advertisements...
...contemplates a great man now, there is little thought of whether or not he swore, heartily and fell in love: one must deal with the questions: "What did he do for us? If he had not lived and behaved so, wherein would our life be different?" And such profit and loss statements have their absorbing interest, even if their appearance may be a sign that humanity sees the sheriff approaching to seal up the door...
...having Weeks for things like Safety, Apples, Thrift, and agreed on the second week in November as a time to spread all their books for children on the front show-tables and have the clerks specialize in describing them. Some said that herein flashed a shrewd eye for profit. To which others replied: "What of it? There are more children than ever before, hence there must be more books." Still others added: "And never before were books made for children as they are made today...
Four University students from France have been assigned leading roles in the play this year. Inasmuch as the play will be given in the original French, the production will profit by the innovation of having actual Frenchmen in the three principle male parts...