Word: formative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, greying cleric has the sort of job he has always wanted. First he moved the editorial office from Boston to Manhattan ("We brought only a dictionary from Boston"), then devised a new format, eye-catching typography, weeded the first issue's articles of verbosity, which he feels chokes much of the religious press...
Keep up the good work. Let those who criticize your format and style, your human shortcomings and falls from grace, take the word of American servicemen that TIME IS undoubtedly the most sought-after publication in the combat zones...
...frankly believe that we have made a distinct improvement over the traditional format. We have substituted informal pictures of numerous professors in all fields. Furthermore, in order to get the articulation of the Faculty's attitude on the relation of their work to the war, we have asked three professors in the major areas of concentration to write articles for us. These articles, by Professors Matthiessen, Brinton, and Thimann, make extremely good reading. Combined with a group of excellent pictures of various professors, they make the Faculty section a lively and interesting...
...July 1. From a mimeographed bulletin the scuttlebutt has risen to its present form, embracing all the activities of the student officers. With the cooperation of the Crimson Printing Company and the CRIMSON, the NTS paper moved to Plympton Street, and had been publishing daily from there. The format, it has been decided, will remain the same when the Scuttlebutt resumes publication next Tuesday...
...library has sold some 4,000,000 books since 21-year-old Bernhard Baron Tauchnitz first thought of bringing U.S. and British authors to the Continent in handy format, at modest cost (about 20? a copy...