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Word: bill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large in the minds of the Union management; they can make but little impression on the mind of the student who thinking, however erroneously, his relations with the Union automatically severed at the end of his Freshman year, finds a ten dollar Union charge on his Sophomore term bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT CONSIDERATIONS | 10/18/1928 | See Source »

...page after page of pirate ship packages of candy next to linoleum and bathroom tiles of telephone romances next to ice-box detective stories--until infidels become dizzy. The hierarchy particularly glories in converts to the cohorts of the faithful who worship Advertisa, through the medium of cigarettes. Here Bill Tilden. Charlie Paddock, Amelia Earhart proclaim their remunerative devotion to the goddess (though Amelia did send her $10,000 reward to Byrd for his Antartic expedition). Soon Elnatein will be sold for "Not a cough in a carload"; and James Joyce's books, because "They are mild--yet they satisfy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TENTH MUSE | 10/16/1928 | See Source »

...fury of Advertisa. Pagans of the world must unite, for single-handed they cannot resist the proselytizing forces of the priests. Unless they get Advertisa Advertisa will get them. With her terrifying and deadly juxtaposition of jarring colors and incongruous commodities, in a stupefying rush of unrelated station signs, bill boards, highway signs, and white ways, she will wreak fatigue, death, destruction upon their heathen intellects. They will be dizzy forever. The infiedels must seize arms and battle for their last strongholds, the mountains, the forests, the wilds, against Moloch, the chimera, the eighth plague, the tenth muse, Advertisa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TENTH MUSE | 10/16/1928 | See Source »

...eliminate false claims, the court should verify the complaint, the bill of particulars and the defendant's answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kelp-Fed Cows | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...eliminate false claims, the court should verify the complaint, the bill of particulars and the defendant's answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ambulance Chasers | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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