Word: items
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people of Asia Minor who, according to the announcement at the beginning of the drive "have only the rags they are wearing to shield them from the chill Syrian winter and the burning desert sun of summer." In view of this it is striking to note that the largest item on the list, which indeed contains a goodly number of assorted clothes including 200 elderly neckties, was about three tons of magazines. The collection committee, feeling that these would not prove of particular advantage to the destitute Syrians have given them to the American Merchant Marine...
...references to past numbers of the magazine, where the elements of the background can be readily collected. It is only by understanding the earlier stages of a situation that the situation Itself can be well understood; and to have in mind all these settings, ready to apply to each item of current news, requires a power of memory which few possess...
...Dentist Hoeffer reread the item. It contains none of the implications he asserts. Many a dental student, male and female, has curtailed his full studies to become a professional of lesser (though allied) rank than a dentist. Some have progressed to become stomatologists. - ED. "Famed" Praised...
Last week an item concerning Jay Gould, for 19 years the world's court tennis champion, appeared on the front pages of several metropolitan newspapers. The story of his life and his athletic successes was recounted with much picturesque detail, prefaced by the sad particulars of his recent and disastrous illness. His photograph also?a plump, animated, swarthy face with a short mustache and a very round high forehead?was published near the stock photograph of Henry Miller, the actor (see MILESTONES), who had died on the same...
...happens that almost simultaneously with your published article we sent out the statement of the Company for 1925 in which we showed sales of $28,553,425.48, whereas your news item indicated that our gross sales would approximate the 1920 record, which reached $32,341,429.00. As a matter of fact, while our 1925 sales did not approximate in dollars our 1920 sales, they far exceeded our 1920 volume in gallons, and this difference in dollars was, therefore, accounted for by the fact that we have had approximately a 25% less price in 1925 than in 1920, which we think...