Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shakespeare in one volume" at prices ranging from "only $2.98" to "only $5.49". After assuring you that this is the one book you have lain awake nights wishing for, the chatty publisher takes you by the lapel and babbles away just like a friendly real estate agent...
...This is in a large measure due to the increased coaching staff," explained Coach Fisher. "Extended time allowed for the practice has also proved a powerful agent in the success of the work. But perhaps the greatest contributing factor was the increased attendance and the interest shown in the practice and in the work...
...course, Columbus has not been pushed off his pedestal by these discoveries. He has merely moved from the pedestal of adventurous explorer to that of the world's first press agent and real estate operator on continental scales. The trouble with all the other explorers was that they were unwilling to let Europe know of the good thing they had found Columbus set himself the task of making America popular, and he succeeded. All the other discovereres had returned at once to Europe, perhaps even at that early date disgusted by the extreme provincialism of the inhabitants. But Columbus...
...Biggs, Celebrated Novelist D. L. Dickson '27 A He Intellectual W. B. Wilson '26 A She Intellectual Olga Frothingham A Tea Drinker Harriet Huntress A Second Tea Drinker Grace Michelman Third Tea Drinker Marie Geare A Fourth Tea Drinker Mary Forsberg A Fifth Tea Drinker Miss Isaacs Real Estate Agent G. S. Curtis '28 Voice on the Radio K. A. Perry...
...German manufacturers of synthetic methanol (wood alcohol), from water gas, threaten the $100,000,000 hardwood distillation industry of the U. S. with extinction. Germans have also manufactured liquid motor fuels by a similar process, which consists in passing a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen over a catalytic agent at fairly high temperature and very high pressure.?Dr. Franz Fischer, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Mulheim, Ruhr, Germany...