Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ladies' Home Journal, as an illustration of the size of the investment, has more than once carried in a single issue advertising exceeding a cost of one million dollars. The dollars invested in a single page in the Saturday Evening Post are always the subject of fascinated comment. Mr. Smith, who since his graduation from the University has been associated with the Curtis Publishing Company's New England office, is in a peculiarly authoritative position to speak of the growth of advertising and the place of the magazine in the field...
...brief and inglorious history. First the Senior Council had a secret meeting to take up the question of restricting Jews. Then someone gave out a report that the Council proposed to recommend the limitation of Jewish students. Then Chancellor Flint in a few eloquent words " refused to comment." Then the Council's Committee of Three abandoned a proposed visit to the Chancellor. Then the Council decided that it had not "unanimously" decided to discourage the enrollment of Jews. Now the Council explains that the report of its action was entirely misleading and that it was given...
...third volume of the Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany has recently been published by the Harvard University Press. It will receive much fuller and more adequate comment in these columna at a later date, but in the meantime it seems that notice should not be emitted concerning what seems the high point of the book from a literary point of view. This is the letter to Robert Moras Love it from Maude Radford Warren giving some details of the heroie death of the former's son. In these days, even five years after...
Arthur Brisbane (Hearst editor) made the following comment on George Washington: "In three months his beer bill was $170, French red wine $105, porter $45. He spent only five shillings for liquors-wise Father of His Country. If everybody had done the same ever since, there would be no drink problem in the United States...
...Frederick is imported by the American Classical League as a mobile expeditionary force with objectives in New York, Boston, Montreal, Chicago, Cincinnati, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, as well as New Haven. And so far he has met little resistance. Newspaper comment is, curiously enough, rather favorable to the classics than otherwise, though the basis of favor is not always classical. One editorial writer insists, for instance, that Latin and Greek cannot be considered defunct so long as botanists use Latin names for plants and physicians rely upon the ancient tongues for titles for their drugs...