Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books, clothed in the dignity of the quintosyllabic word Pornographia. This pornographia, it is stated, is intended only for esoteric adults. Despite this no doubt worthy intention there are few undergraduates who have not been offered thousands of dollars worth of the world's rare sex literature for a mere pittance. More recently the Maxwell Droke publishing company has advertised through the channels of Uncle Sam's mails a book of verse designated as "What not to recite at little Eleanor's party." What not to recite at little Eleanor's party is obviously not suitable material for the respectable...
...Wall Street in the happy days of the 1920's, companies were known by the bankers they kept. Mere fact that J. P. Morgan & Co. sponsored a corporation's securities was enough market-wise to send them soaring the instant they were issued. Since then, however, what with his memories of the Kreuger fiasco and other notable glimpses of bankers at work, the average investor has grown skeptical. Furthermore, New Deal legislation, like the requirement that all private bankers choose between their securities and their deposit business, has severed many a traditional corporate connection. Securities affiliates have been...
...York State Superintendent of Insurance. Under his thumb are 800 insurance companies with $22,000,000,000 of assets, which is 80% of all U. S. insurance assets and a sum equal to the national debt when President Roosevelt entered the White House. Nor is the job a mere matter of making the companies toe the strict line of New York State's insurance laws-as Superintendent George Slingerland Van Schaick (pronounced Skoik) found out. For also under his supervision were the big mortgage companies that cracked up after the 1933 Bank Moratorium with scandalous reverberations (TIME...
...Introduction: Physics C in the last years has become a mere repetition of Physics B, with a slightly more advanced viewpoint. It is also dangerously akin to Physics D. We feel a need for an advanced survey course, which goes into considerable detail into the various fields of physics, and is designed for the student who has had at least an adequate year of physics. It is our hope that a course of this nature will give a man who has decided to concentrate in physics some idea of what section of the field he might especially study...
...given his readers their money's worth. Drums, Marching On, Long Hunt were all lengthy historical romances in which many a reader took great stock; some captious critics found the stock somewhat watered, but Author Boyd has established his reputation as a popularizer of U. S. legend. No mere praiser of times past, and not willing to go on forever writing melodramas of an earlier day, in Roll River he has come to grips with...