Word: formative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most nations have their official newspaper, the U. S. managed to get along without one until last week. Then appeared the first issue of the Federal Register. Published by the National Archives every day except Sunday, Monday and days following holidays, printed in the Government Printing Office in the format of the Congressional Record, its aim is to publicize the orders and utterances of all executive officers of the Government, which thereupon become official. Cost: $250,000 per year. Price: 5? a copy, $10 a year. First article in the 16 pages of No. 1, Vol. 1 was an account...
...preachers and laymen too busy to cover the whole field of "informational and inspirational writing" appeared the Religious Digest, edited by Rev. Dr. Bernard J. Mulder, 39, Reformed Church minister of Grand Rapids, Mich. Resembling the Readers' Digest in format, this monthly ($3 per year) culls and condenses articles from such journals as Anglican Theological Review, Church Management, Religious Telescope, Character, includes book reviews, sermon outlines, pious "features...
...Harvard Advocate has had many changes of format in the years since 1866, yet it holds a familiar place in the undergraduate and the outside world. Although sometimes companioned for strident intervals, it is now the most important published outlet for Harvard literary ambitions and opinions...
SINCE 1914-J. H. Landman-Barnes & Noble ($1.50). Handy political handbook of the post-War world, in tabloid size, arrangement, format...
...Windus), he retired to his Surrey cottage six years ago to give all his time to his own manuscripts. The late Enoch Arnold Bennett described Swinnerton: "He tells authors what they ought to do and ought not to do. He is marvelously and terribly particular and fussy about the format of the books issued by the firm. Questions as to fonts of type, width of margins, disposition of title-pages, tint and texture of bindings really do interest him. And misprints-especially when he has read the proofs himself-give him neuralgia and even worse afflictions. . . . Medium height, medium looks...