Word: circularize
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This number, of course, does not include such desireable services as the sale of bloodsuckers. According to A. S. Wiley's original circular issued in 1854, "Foreign Leeches of recent importation will always be on hand." And they were on hand until the early part of this century. Mr. Mahoney remembers them well. They were used to reduce the swelling on riotous Harvard student's black eyes, and sold for twenty-five cents apiece. "Slimy things," recalls Mr. Mahoney, "Damn, I'd rather have a black...
...professional cartographer" prepared the maps, which cost $2 for an entire year's set. In its circular the tutoring service said that students could buy the maps through the mail by, sending their money to the secretary, Miss Barbara Woodfin. "We will send you the set by return mail, and well in time for your next assignment...
...circular boasted of the historical notes "included in the margins of many of the maps to clarify certain situations" and told of the cartographer's accuracy "in contrast to the sloppy and inexact maps which have come out in previous years...
...Etoile thus came into being. Haussmann figured that barricades could not be easily erected across wide boulevards, nor could the favorite technique of shooting and heaving bricks from upper-story windows be so handily employed. The focal points where several boulevards converged were ideal as artillery stations, and the circular boulevards built replacing the old city walls facilitated the rapid shifting of troops...
...plea for a steak dinner, the circular says...