Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he saw the white infantry. The foot soldiers were coming up through the long grass toward the road. Bailey waved his arms at the tank column and shouted, pointing to the infantrymen. A tank commander turned, saw the danger. He slammed down the cover of his turret. The tank spun around on its treads and a section of Bailey's fence went out. Half a dozen other tanks followed, charging through the grass with bursts of blank cartridges. It was over in a minute. An umpire pointed to the infantry: "They finished...
...analyzing the team's chances against Army today, Harlow referred to a letter written by Lothrop Withington '11 which was recently printed in Bill Cunningham's column. In that letter Withington wrote, "Harvard did not feel it could play two strong teams like Princeton and Dartmouth on consecutive Saturdays." "Remember that sentence when we play Army tomorrow afternoon, gentlemen," Harlow said...
When she resigned as agricultural editor in 1937 to write only when it suited her, Free Press editors relaxed. She had terrorized them for years, berating them for crimes like putting a one-column head on a bull-show story and burying it back among the gall-bladder ads. They relaxed too soon. Cora kept right on berating them until she died...
Observing the 50,000 soldiers and defense workers who had moved in on Denver (pop. 322,412), he resolved to add them to his mounting circulation before the bigger, haughtier, wealthier Denver Post gathered them in. A column of advice-to-the-lovelorn-one of journalism's oldest tried-&-true reader snatchers-might do the trick. In mysterious Mrs. Molly Mayfield he found an almost perfect editor. Nobody knew who "she" was and Editor Foster wouldn't tell...
This happy incident gave Molly her line: to nurse along a series of verbal wars. It worked so well that the column soon became the most successful feature Denver had had since the days of Eugene Field, back...