Word: formative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. John Merlin Powis Smith, 65, Professor of Semitic Languages & Literature at University of Chicago; of a cerebral hemorrhage; aboard S. S. Laconia in New York Harbor. In 1927 he edited a modernized Old Testament, published it in normal book format...
Canadian Magazine (circulation: 96,288*) is Canada's oldest and most deeply intrenched general magazine. In format and contents it might be rated a mite inferior to National Home Monthly. It is published by Major Hugh C. MacLean who started in the magazine business with his brother Col. John by founding the Canadian Grocer 45 years ago. Now the brothers spell their names differently, never speak...
...delightfully written book published in a truly admirable format. Within its few pages, it combines the romance of the strange but true, the stimulation of logical and convincing thought, and the adventure of exploring the unknown...
Throughout Professor Hind is thorough and scholarly, but never so technical that the book becomes incomprehensible or uninteresting to a novice. The format of the book is admirable, the printing excellent, and the hundred or more illustrations beautifully reproduced...
Babies: Just Babies will be of the approximate size and format of Physical Culture or Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Its purpose will be to aid young parents, to be helpful and entertaining "in a decidedly high class way." Its contents will include articles on care and feeding of children under five years, fiction concerning parents & babies, features for very young readers, many illustrations of babes...