Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three respectively, were playing in their nursery with a handsome set of coloured blocks. They utilized these blocks as all children do--that is to say, they placed some on top of others and some next to others. Once they had all the blocks erected into a magnificently lofty column. For a moment they stood aside and admired their handiwork, and then Johnnie said impatiently, "Oh, let's knock it down! I don't like it. I want another pile." So, with mirthful glee they destroyed their tower and built another...
...tabloid press had, indeed, turned up Vivian Gordon's past much as a bear snouting for ants turns over a stone. Even the conservative papers devoted column upon column to the murder mystery and its ramifications. But the sensational papers tackled Vivian's story with a mad gusto, especially Joseph Medill Patterson's big little Daily News...
...large size papers played down the Gordon drama while they gave column after column to the Muscle Shoals story. The News did opposite. We did it because we believe any actual happening is more interesting to most people than any non-happening. . . . Maybe our theories about what is news and what isn't are all wrong. We've often been told they are all wrong...
...vest-pocket three-column newspaper complete with headlines such as "Baby to be President of Country says father" (for David Van Camp, Son of the Akron Times-Press' Sunday Editor...
...Graduate School column on March 3, you set forth the reasons for the ruling just issued concerning students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences living in Perkins and Conant Halls. Although it must be admitted that the general purpose of the ruling--that is, to give those who cannot afford high rents an opportunity to live in inexpensive rooms, and to eliminate those perennial inhabitants who, by virtue of full time teaching appointments could (so they say) afford to live elsewhere,--is just and reasonable, the method of carrying the ideal into effect involves a fallacy and contradiction...