Used book value rather than price when comparing to S&P.
Keeping Score
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
harvard came from behind 16 with just a couple minutes left to tie the game, but it felt like a Harvard win with the
Grifter on money as a way of keeping score
Money had no value to my dad. It just his way to keep score, to prove how smart he was outwitting the ‘suckers’.
Annie Leibowitz, Photographer
It’s impossible to account for all of Leibovitz’s line-item expenses, but as surprising as it may be to outsiders, she was clearly spending beyond
Comparing skating to other sports
Skate Canada is encouraging skating officials and athletes to use words such as ‘strength’, ‘power’, ‘speed’, and ‘risk’ when describing the sport. Team members
Meg Whitman, eBay CEO
The point, said Whitman, is that ‘I think every human being, Arthur Levitt or the janitor or the waitress or the doctor or the
Howard Dill, Pumpkin champion
His breakthrough came in 1979 when he grew a 438-pound pumpkin, declared the largest in the world. Mr. Dill won the world championship four
George Gissing
Yet this energetic lady had no social ambitions that pointed above her own stratum. She did not aim at intimacy with her superiors; merely
George Gissing
‘A man who comes to be hanged,’ pursued Jasper, impartially, ‘has the satisfaction of knowing that he has brought society to its last resource.
George Gissing
Like her multitudinous kind, Mrs. Yule lived only in the opinions of other people. What others would say was her ceaseless preoccupation. She had