Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practically all the nation's leading industries submitted material in the contest. Included in the list of contributors were the Ford Motors Corporation, The Cunard Steamship lines, and several local financial firms. All of the advertisements were in some form of periodical advertising...
There has crept into general usage recently . . . a form of punctuation . . . consisting of three dots . . . that give a specious appearance of dignity and importance to their literature . . . and are felt to enhance the impression that the writer strives to create . . . In advertising puffs . . . especially in advertising snowy linen . . . and beautiful silver . . . and trips to the Riviera . . . and other nice things . . . it has superseded all other punctuation. . . . But it is also being widely used in novels . . . where the comma has gone into a decline . . . and the reader reads in a coma . . . Even in the psychological study. . The Locomotive God . . . the interesting...
...method of holding a series of tryouts to determine the personnel of the team. Instead of this procedure, a number of round table discussions will be held, which all candidates will be required to attend. At these discussions the candidates, assisted by the coach, will draw up in organized form all that may be said on either side of the question which is to be debated...
...Columbia University. Under the present plan of selecting the teams, this fault of the debaters has proven somewhat difficult to obviate. The new plan of having a series of discussions before any debater prepares a brief for either side of a question will give the candidate an opportunity to form his own opinions of the subject, and to hear all of the points that can be fairly and accurately expounded in the argument for each side...
...optimistic generalities in which he assured a doubtful world that the interests of this country are anything but imperialistic. But if the United States treatment of South America where the investments of her citizens exceed the total of those placed in Europe is not imperialistic. It is a form of aggressive and armed commercialism. Foreign nations, forbidden themselves to interfere, have sneered at what they choose to call a hypocritical, forceful exploitation of weaker nations by America in her role as the Monarchy of Big Business. "It is better for peoples to make their own mistakes," said the President...