Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marine insurance firm, Lloyd's calls for considerable admiration. During the present year it has kept track of 15,000 ships and published the fate and whereabouts of every one of them in Lloyd's List, the official bulletin. But as a general insurance firm Lloyd's is even more famous. In Britain it insures anything from the weather to eggs hatching in incubators. To Americans it is famous for having insured against Harry K. Thaw's conviction, for having insured a baseball team against losing a World's Series, for having issued policies...
About 1670 Edward Lloyd kept a coffee house in Tower Street which catered to seafaring men. He decided to start a little 'bulletin called Lloyd's News, parent of the present Lloyd's List, in which he chronicled the goings and comings of sailing craft in the Port of London. This proved an immense success and in 1692 he moved his coffee house to more spacious quarters in Lombard Street and expanded the bulletin to include general information. Parliament became annoyed because Edward Lloyd, so it is said, knew more than it; the paper was suppressed...
...even wars have their ends. Rathom returned to the U. S. and took a post on The Chicago Times-Herald (later The Record-Herald). Then he went to Providence. In the last 18 years he was managing editor, editor and general manager of The Providence Journal and The Evening Bulletin, said to be one of the most money-making magazine combinations...
...Charles Blount Jr. '18 writing from Lyon, France, to the Alumni Bulletin makes use of the familiar "reductio ad absurdum" argument to demolish the case of those who contend that no one should "deny to any young man the opportunities of a Harvard education." And he indulges in some caustic irony at the expense of those who, on the grounds of democracy and liberalism, would throw open the gates to every eager young...
...Harvard Alumni Bulletin Mr. Corliss Lamont reports and deplores a fact of undergraduate life at Harvard which is also, probably, a fact in many other colleges. The men from private schools control most of the undergraduate activities. The men from the public schools are at the head only in study and scholarship, the main purpose, aside from the ecclesastical object of the more ancient foundations which our wise and pious ancestors and their descendants established and endowed...