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...deal gives Curtis a solid lodgment in the prospering field of shelter magazines. Catering to the middle-brow homebody and thriving on the postwar trend to do-it-yourself, American Home has picked up 800,000 new readers over the past ten years. The Meredith Publishing Co.'s Better Homes and Gardens has done even better, adding 1,200,000 readers in ten years to reach a circulation of 4,379,237. In advertising revenue Better Homes now ranks sixth among all national magazines, American Home a solid 16th...
...which has lately rankled deep in his generous heart: "And now, my friends let ; admonish you against insidious and hurtful propaganda that may arise within your ranks. The very rapid development to our organization ... has made it inevitable that inefficiency and selfish ambition and even rank dishonesty should find lodgment among us Some [local] leaders...
...Platt Amendment to the U. S. Army Appropriation Bill of 1901 provided in part: 1) that no foreign power should ever obtain lodgment in or establish control over Cuba. 2) that Cuba should contract no debt for which the revenues were inadequate. 3) that the United States might intervene to preserve independence, order, and Republican government, and to sec that Cuba discharged her obligations to other nations...
...cases, is simply the outcome of propegrade and counter-propaganda working the upon the traditions, prejudices, aversions or inertia of the people. The rst. inclination of most men and women is to connect every new problem with something already silhouetted in their imaginations some principle that has already found lodgment there. Very few of us approach any new public question with open minds; or rather, we do it with minds that are open at the bottom only, not open at the top. Arguments and appeals to reason go in and fall right out again. The stereotype remains unaltered...
...recent paper in the Critic J. H. Morse recalls Holmes and Lowell as speakers at Harvard commencements, and says that "Holmes spoke to the moment and was less remembered afterward, while the deeper thoughts uttered by Lowell found a lodgment in the heart and were not gone...