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...secretly considers, from the depths of his casual knowledge about such things, to be one of the most highly developed and interesting of any nation. There were statues of Frederick the Great and the Great Elector. Before this last the Vagabond paused a moment in indecision. Did the adjective reflect on the man's girth or his mental ability...
...tweenbrain.* Here the sensations on smell, sight, visceral activity, body position, temperature and pain pause a jiffy on their way to the thinking part of the brain. When one has a general feeling of discomfort, his tweenbrain is trying to tell his main brain an incoherent story. Vague emotions reflect the tweenbrain's mentally low-grade activities. Stomach "nervousness" must also have some relation to the diencephalon, for it to some extent controls digestion and other vegetative processes...
...against $14,278,000 from those sources in 1929. Trading profits however were $8,626,000 against $14,816,000. The net result was that Kreuger & Toll in 1930 had profits of $32,789,000 against $29,095,000 in 1929. If investments had not been marked down to reflect market conditions, Ivar Kreuger could have reported earnings of $43,000,000. Total assets of the company are now carried...
...last week figures were being issued which showed that the Spring recovery in business did not exceed the usual seasonal gain, and was giving signs of dying away. Perhaps most frightening, so far as the stockmarket is concerned, have been the many dividend reductions and omissions, although these reflect past business, not future. During March, 114 dividends were omitted, as against 57 such actions in March 1930; 115 dividends were reduced, against ten last year...
...mostly of students who want to act and express themselves freely without the restraint of conservative tradition. It must be admitted however, that the members are more interested in their own independent attitudes than in the reforms they advocate. The invitation to Professor Carver, whether accepted or not, will reflect favorably on the members of the Socialist Club and will give them the desired appearance of striving for those great principles to which they are dedicated...