Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the message was incorrectly quoted in your "Message to McAdams," although it consisted of only three words and two numbers. Written as it was on a bulletin board in a private office, it was peculiarly personal, a tribute to a departed friend paid in the presence of mutual friends. But your correspondent, trespassing upon privacy to publicize the incident, omitted the one essential fact which gave it meaning and significance. This fact was that the phrase, "the issue is between the Country and the Country Club," now in common use, was coined by Clark McAdams and printed...
Permit me to quote briefly from a bulletin of instructions which I have been mailing to prospective contributors since 1929: "Popular Science Monthly is interested in facts-actualities- things-and not ideas. Nothing of a grotesque, fanciful, or freakish nature is published...
...citizen might be expected to know income tax law to the last loophole, he would be one "having a taxable net estate of $1,000,000 and a taxable net income of $100,000." To just such a man, however, the Cornellian Council Bulletin last week pointed out how much he could "save" by giving Cornell $15,000, the maximum percentage of his income on which Federal law allows gift exemptions. He would, the Bulletin reminded him, save $8,650 in Federal income tax, an average state income tax of $1,000. Deducting $15,000 from his estate, moreover, would...
Tactfully concludes the Bulletin: "We emphasize that this summary and the chart are intended primarily to illustrate the solicitude with which the Federal revenue statutes treat contributions to educational institutions...
...creature thus celebrated was a 60-ft. plant-feeding dinosaur, tentatively named Atlantosaurus montanus, discovered in Colorado. The verses were composed by an author-traveler named Frank Cowan of Greensburg, Pa., published in Vol. III, No. 1, of Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, dated Jan. 1, 1884. The same issue contained a sketch of a brontosaurus, a facetiously polysyllabic and mildly risque poem about a mermaid and an octopus, articles on the musk ox and the flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human...