Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second, third and fourth class matter. On the advertising sections of their magazines, for example, publishers would save from .25? to 2? per pound, according to zone, when they mail their publications out to subscribers. On postcards, which are used as much for placing orders as for "dropping a line," the rate was cut in half, back to one cent. Also, mail-order men would acquire the privilege of issuing C. O. D. return mail-cards and envelopes upon which the U. S. collects only when they are used; less wasteful-and more enticing-than the "use-the-enclosed-stamped...
...divined Grant's plans; always Grant's losses were heavier. The quiet man in gray who never touched tobacco, rarely tasted liquor and never used a curse-word, persistently outguessed the smoking, drinking, swearing leader from the North. All the next winter Grant was held to the line where he had vowed to "fight it out if it takes all summer...
Except for trees which in 15 centuries have grown thickly upon it, the road was sufficiently smooth for motor driving. Directly in line with the recently discovered great causeway running southward from Coba past Lake Xkanha, this road seems part of a great Mayan passage towards Ixil. At the road's end is a flight of stone steps going up a dilapidated pyramid 70 feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into...
...that was news; but it did not entirely explain the large pat on the back. Keen-eyed readers found the explanation in a by-line in minute type: From the Palm Beach Daily News...
...line or a word, an innuendo or a criticism . . . that can offend or displease," is the new editorial policy of this society weekly...