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...Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeléeff, Russian chemist, arranged all the elements in groups that show the mathematical progression of their atomic weights, predicted the existence of undiscovered elements which subsequent research found. Similarly, there was a square in the chemical crossword puzzle for radium, the properties of which were known before Madame Curie obtained that metal in a free state...
...every army on the march, there are stragglers. In a defeated army, there are many. The marching army of newspapers armed with daily crossword puzzles has seen another drop out of its ranks...
...introduce a simplified version of the English language, with a sprinkling of mediaeval Latin to mollify the Irish. This process was called Americanisation and was carried into effect by the abolition of the old grammars and by the substitution of a logical system of spelling known as the crossword puzzle. The system was very popular since there were no exceptions to its rules, but it was eventually superseded by the simpler method of proclaiming Erse the official language. Gaelic won immediate success since it had no rules, being previously confined to abuse...
...book should. The book spent a good deal of time rounding out a comic character with a weakness for cross-word puzzles, which is either over or under-played by C. T. F. B. Lyon '27. You would think that with those extra letters, he could get somewhere with crossword puzzles, but evidently...
Anticipated decline of the book sales, may, however, have been calculated with the Crossword Puzzle Magazine in mind. The cross-section of the U. S. press examined by TIME on Jan. 5 , showed but two changes. The following newspapers were still publishing crossword puzzles last week: Washington Post, Atlanta Constitution, Detroit Free Press, Omaha Bee, Chicago Tribune, Buffalo News, Cleveland Press, Cincinnati Enquirer, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Philadelphia Public Ledger, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Transcript and nine Manhattan dailies. Crossword puzzles had ceased to appear in The Kansas City Star, The Minneapolis Tribune...