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Word: actually (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company in Wheeling, W. Va. 27 years ago, later bought an annuity bond business, now has branches in 57 cities with 2,000 salesmen in the field selling certificates with a face value of some $6,000,000 every month. Carmi Thompson has been president for only three years. Actual boss is Founder Paull's son-in-law, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney General John Marshall, whose family are the biggest stockholders. Sleek, bright-eyed Mr. Marshall, who is chairman of the board, said Fidelity would fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Fraud and Deceit | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...national advertisers' dollars are radio and mass circulation magazines. Oddest aspect of their rivalry is the dissimilarity of their respective yardsticks for sales effectiveness. Radio's known quantity, the number of sets within listening range of transmitting stations, are scaled down in order to ascertain the actual audience at a given moment. But magazines' known quantity, net paid circulation, is rarely scaled upward to ascertain the corresponding potential audience of a given issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Audiences v. Circulations | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Chief obstacle to the well-being of these seven counties, as of the rural U. S. generally, was poor schools-dark, dirty, manned by ill-prepared teachers whose time was spread over so many classes that some pupils had only two weeks of actual instruction in a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bootstraps | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...should like to thank you for your report of the Lowell House Symposium on evolution and for your admirable editorial on the subject. In chronicling my own brief remarks and ignoring the names and speeches of the actual participants, however, you failed to do justice to the undergraduate members whose show it was. If considerations of space required the cutting of the story, as I suppose, the gravy could have been spared better than the meat. The success of the symposium was owing entirely to Messrs. John D. Adams, Nathaniel Banfield, John Bonner, John Brainard, Irwin Clark, Vinton Dearing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Until March 1, applications will be coming in from all parts of the country. While there are no actual stipulations as to age or formal education, all applicants are expected to have spent at least three years in journalistic work. Recipients of the fellowship awards will be studying during a leave of absence from their papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIEMAN AWARDS TO BE CONTINUED AGAIN NEXT YEAR | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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