Word: items
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Bobby Burns, sapient Scot: "Nae man can tether Time." So TIME, at times, runs wild. Thus, TIME which "discovereth all things," blazoned business item commending Servel President Seaber for expeditious action in approaching production of gas fired refrigerators. Not discovered by TIME is the fact that for over two years the Ice-o-lator, gas fired refrigerator, has been serving hundreds of homes. Its makers, National Refrigerating Co., Winchester Arms sponsored corporation, apparently lack potent publicity promoter. "Improve your TIME and your TIME will improve you." Reader, not yet subscriber, V. MACGRATH...
About every other week, sharp-eyed collectors read a two-inch news item about a man named Huntington who buys things. Last week it was a collection of the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, and her son, James I of England. Other items have announced that this Mr. Huntington bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," and the best Gutenberg Bible in existence, and that very rare object, a first folio of Shakespeare, and a first edition of Hamlet, and . . . But the "Blue Boy" and the Bible aside, what sort of man, people have wondered, is Mr. Huntington...
...Field became a partner. The firm became Field, Palmer & Leiter. Potter Palmer withdrew and the name was changed to Field, Leiter & Co. Marshall Field became a rich man and became so through two business principles most unusual in the U. S. before the Civil War. He backed up every item of goods he sold with a warranty of its soundness and value and he sold only for "cash." "Cash" meant the exact day, 30 to 60 days after billing, on which a bill was due, else no more dealings with Field, Leiter...
...most such meetings, those who attended did so to orient themselves anew to the national aspects of their work. No item of new import was brought forward. Dr. Bundeson declared that all health education material intended for public consumption should be phrased in words of one syllable because the mental age of the public is twelve years...
...this another opportunity to prepare for a future on "The New Yorker" or "Vanity Fair". It is not quite that. The University as faced with a different situation. The CRIMSON, as has been said, is strongly in favor of remedying that situation. And this competition is the first constructive item toward some progress in the matter...