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Word: graphics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mills, racketeers, grafters were not all. Bordellos, roulette wheels & lottery dens also figured in the testimony. From time to time Philadelphians were treated to the graphic evidence of a gang murder, racketeer ructions in the purlieus of the city. Never before had Pennsylvanians read of such corruption in city government. It was enough to give any voter pause. Varedom was in jeopardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Blinks of Philadelphia | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Though moving pictures are finding an increasing vogue in elementary schools throughout the country few Universities have made an effort to utilize this graphic method of instruction. The rapid come and go the obvious superficiality of familiar movie films have prejudiced faculties against them and it is with something of a start that one reads of their introduction into a Harvard class room. The reels to be projected by the German department are well chosen however in that they attempt what is preeminently fitted to this sort of presentation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STARRING STUDIES | 11/8/1928 | See Source »

...alluded to his gallant War record. Today, as Editor of Britannia, he has the potent backing of Inveresk Pulp & Paper Ltd., a shrewd firm which sells its product to the public direct, by the stratagem of owning the London Daily Chronicle and such famed magazines as the Tatler, Bystander, Graphic, Sphere?and now Britannia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Frankau's Britannia | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Since then, journalism has progressed. Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's New York Evening Graphic has, "with an earnest desire to bring lonely people together," established a Lonely Hearts' page. Men and women seeking companions do not have to pay to have their notices inserted in the Graphic. They can even have their photographs published free of charge, if they will but come to the Graphic office. This new lure was established last week. It is all a labor of love: "Drab, colorless lives have been made bright; discouraged souls have been given renewed faith in mankind and have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lonely Hearts | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Graphic was careful to run the following: "NOTICE-This column serves as a medium through which lonely persons may be introduced to congenial companions. No names published. Letter accompanied by a reference and inclosing a stamp will be forwarded to the proper parties. The Graphic cannot and does not assume responsibility for the good faith of correspondence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lonely Hearts | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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