Word: albright
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Robert H. Pfeiffer, Curator of the Semitic Museum, the scroll is believed to be the prophetic Book of Lameck, a primitive patriarch, mentioned in the fourth chapter of the Book of Genesis. The prophet's inscription was identified in the first few lines of the parchment by William F. Albright, professor of Semantics at Johns Hopkins University...
...look Downey-n the mouth," commented the disciple. "Try to look Merriman." The hoary sage replied, "Tisdale of woe has me Hagerty, Gant Gropp my way out. Things would Albright-en considerably if I had some Jackson--how about a Finnegan...
General Manager James Floyd Albright, a onetime soda clerk who began at Cokesbury as a shipping clerk in 1925, has a simple explanation for what makes books so popular in Dallas: "It's aggressive salesmanship. That and a large stock. We want to have books people want when they come in here...
...Albright bombards 54,000 customers all over the Southwest with as many as 250 leaflets a year, plus an annual 100-page catalogue and two supplements. He has taken a firm hold on the business of supplying Texas schools and institutions. He also buys up publishers' remainders at rock-bottom prices, dolls them up in new dustjackets, sometimes changes the titles a bit, and keeps them moving across the counters and through the mails...
...Says Albright: "We don't hit for the literary type of the booklover in spite of all our walnut paneling. There are so few of them we'd starve to death in no time." Albright, known in the trade as the "corn salesman," once heard a bookseller complain to a publisher that nothing was being published for the thinking man. Said Albright: "I told them that the average man . . . couldn't read anything but corn and what we needed was more corn...