Word: slides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course and the preponderance of graduate students enrolled allow a certain amount of informality which is always welcome. Very short weekly quizzes of a general nature make possible the omission of the hour exam, and are not too trying for the student who likes to let his work slide till the final...
...July and August 1931, so many people sold pounds sterling and bought francs or dollars, so few did the reverse, that a flood of gold left England. To keep the Bank of England from being squeezed completely dry, Britain stopped gold payments, let the pound slide. Later the Government created an equalization fund of ?150,000,000 (increased last May to ?350,000,000), which was used by the Bank of England as the Government's agent to buy sterling when others sold, sell when others bought-keep the pound from fluctuating. By this means during the last...
...things he said during the War to End War. Along with many a college professor he gave his services to the Nation, particularly to the Committee on Public Information headed by George Creel. Ministers were the first to demand, as suitable for churches, such material as a lantern-slide lecture on "Ruined Churches in France." Ministers were also glad to give their pulpits to "Four-Minute Men," to preach mimeographed War sermons sent out by Propagandist Creel, and sometimes, like the late Dr. Percy Stickney Grant of Manhattan's Church of the Ascension, to let Mr. Creel himself speak...
...practicing architect, he was too obliging to examine closely the shoddy materials his friends the contractors supplied him. Consequently he got a bad reputation, lapsed into weak self-pity. When his brother decided to reside in England permanently, Stephen managed to join him again, began to let his business slide. Maxwell bought "Shipmates," the country seat of Sir Nigel Fearless, a bankrupt baronet, who promptly proceeded to drown himself as a family tradition required. Great was Stephen's resentment when his brother fell in love with the baronet's widow, made a will in her favor. He felt...
Bill Young's flair for analysis came from his father who was for years American Telephone & Telegraph's chief traveling auditor. While still an undergraduate Bill Young published financial articles, invented a new type of slide rule. His method of calculating security values involves the use of 30 separate ratios. Now 32, married but childless, he lives on swank Sutton Place, uses his yacht Arab as a summer home...