Word: grammer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elaborate face-lifting is typical of the way oldtime Street & Smith keeps itself young. In fact, the old Street & Smith has been hardly recognizable since 1938, when white-haired, supercharged Allen L. Grammer moved in as president. He had spent more than 20 years as a kind of efficiency expert for Curtis Publishing Co., and made a small fortune inventing new printing processes. He found Street & Smith possessors of a building full of dusty rolltop desks, and coasting on its dusty laurels. He moved the offices into a skyscraper, and fixed up the foyer like a cocktail lounge. Then...
...theme proved popular, Street & Smith rode it to death. There were 400 volumes about Buffalo Bill, 1,000 about Frank Merriwell. Grammer wishes he knew how many different books and magazines S. & S. has put out. Some old hands estimate it as over 10,000 titles...
Janitor's office in all Houses are desperately understaffed, making the moving problem one of local college ingenuity rather than general grammer school brawn. it require two to four men to move a good-sized, well-stocked sophomore within an hour, and when five or six men want to move in one day, it over-works today's janitor staff...
...education today is the cleavage between science and "the humanities." We have no more Leonardos or Goethes. Anyone who has studied the history of science, or read Whitehead or Eddington can testify to their superior value as general training for the mind, over an intensive course in German grammer, or a study of literary names and dates...
...improving, along comes your magazine, grabs Grandma Literary Digest by the seat of her inner chaps, and throws her clear out of the literary corral. Then your writers began spitting through their teeth to show how smart they were and began to splatter us with them there grammer...