Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This item, quite obviously, should have appeared under Religion...
...devoted to Religion a story about the appearance on the platform of Kansas City, of Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, colored and convicted violator of the Mann Act. I was delighted because I had been scoffed at by Methodists for saying that I had seen an item concerned with the same speaker in a local daily. Here at last, I felt, was proof of the actuality, for I and others, place much faith in the verity of TIME...
...flaxseed, like all agricultural produce, is a whimsical item. Sometimes there is want, and the price is dear. Irregular, therefore, has been American Linseed's business. In almost 30 full years it has paid a total of only $5.25 on its common stock, and not much more on its preferred. Flaxseed was the chief trouble...
...Every U. S. reader has seen that headline. Last week, no exception, saw the announcement of the annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation, listing an expenditure of $1,223,124 "Amazing" said the public as it turned the page, failing to comprehend the figure in the light of an item in the world's broadest educational program. But, rare is the educator or the scientist who has not, or does not hope to be, aided by this program...
...discounting such pictures of the college student, and see in these caricatures nothing more than a grotesque and rather obvious attempt at humor. This is, however, a more sinister type of publicity concerning the undergraduate which is designed to catch the eyes of scandal-loving readers by distorting any item of college news which might be made to appear sensational. The tabloid and the so-called "yellow press" find in the most insignificant events of college life a wealth of material for the exaggerated tales...