Word: items
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page 17, of TIME, Jan. 3, there appears an item headed "P. B. K. T. B.," dealing with the establishment of the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau at this university...
Especially interesting, and the most valuable item, is a copy, bound in vellum for presentation, of the first edition of "Alice in Wonderland, London, 1865." This edition was recalled by the author, and the publishers sold the sheets to D. Appleton & Company, New York, who issued the book with a new title-page dated 1866. For a long time the edition published in London in 1866 was considered the first. A copy of this edition in the collection has, as frontispiece, an unusual plate hand-colored by Tenniel, the artist...
...static. Then there was a rush of calls. Shortly after 10 a. m. the Associated Press put a call through to its London office, announcing another visit of Edward of Wales to the U. S. and Canada next summer. The New York A. P. man took down the dictated item on a noiseless typewriter. . . . The transatlantic service begins daily at 8:30 a. m., Eastern Standard Time, ending at 1:30 p. m. Rates: $25 per min.; minimum, three min., maximum twelve min. (though on the second day a Manhattan woman was allowed to chatter along for 28 min., costing...
Sirs: Under THE PRESS (TIME, Dec. 13) the article on Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker caused us to smile again-and to chuckle too, for a second time. . . Your news item is three years late, as we know it. ... TIME is usually ahead of that record-so we'll not deliver unto you-such as you deliver, or send to your staff, one of your "thoroughgoing rebukes. . . ." Here is the copy of one of the Musa-Shiya advertisements referred to above: This very nice advertisement Onnounce Out of Musa Shiya the Shirtmaker (Also Many Dry Good Selling) Foulard This croth...
There has been a revoluion in Lithuanta, according to the latest reports, which are very brief and say only that General Smetons, supported by the Army, has taken over the Government, and thrown its former members into jail. Yet this item has a prominent place on the front page of the papers, taking the space temporarily deserted by the intrigues of the Roumanian Government and the illness of their King...