Word: battened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foundation established by the late E. W. Bok. journalist and philanthropist, for the best advertisements in certain established classes, submitted by any individual or organization. Last year the first prize was awarded to Cyrus B. K. Curtis of the Curtis Publishing Company, the four second prizes to the Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborne Company, Incorporated, to the Northern States Power Company, to the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and to the Newell-Emmett Company
...Beta Kappa means "Learning at the Helm of Life." But Heaven help the ship of state that has a scholar for a pilot. Today perhaps a scientist can chart the seven seas, but it takes a captain with control and leadership to batten down the hatches. The Phi Beta key, its advocates announce, can open many doors, but hatches, are something else again. And anyway, too many males have left their coats quite carelessly unbuttoned for the abdominal honor to be considered a master key to the most exclusive dwellings...
Previous to the opening, considerable resentment was aroused by the fact that Dean Cornwell, famed U. S. illustrator, was being permitted to hang one of a series of Biblical paintings which had appeared, with text by Manhattan Adman Bruce Barton (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), in Good Housekeeping magazine. But those who had objected so noisily to this indignity paid little attention to the bright decorative scene, in which the feet of Jesus were being washed by the tears of a sinner, once it was on view...
National Campaign for a Specific Product ($2,000)-won by Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Corp. (Chicago), for a campaign of Armstrong's Linoleum floors (Armstrong, Cork...
...prize of $2,000 for a national campaign for a specific product was won by Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, Inc., New York. The campaign which they had conducted was that of Armstrong's, Linoleum Floors, a product of the Armstrong Cork Company...