Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been based on ignorance. It can give him some ability to pick the right material for future reading, and more important still, awaken a new interest in him which will lead to a desire for more of this type of reading, even if it is only the political news in the daily press. Finally, by starting this train of consequences, it should enable him to vote more intelligently and take part in discussions with greater ability...
...Cross Plains, Texas, Dr. J. Henry McGowen, a dentist, posted a dollar bill, attached by paper clips to a prepaid post card, to the circulation department of Chicago's Radio News for six months' subscription. Few days later the post card was delivered, the money still attached...
...three years, two rewritings-a period as hectic as one long house cleaning-Mrs. Gasparotti got it to come out right and sent it off under her maiden name, Elizabeth Seifert, to the Dodd, Mead-Redbook Magazine $10,000 novel contest. The day the news came she had won, she and the children "just sat down and looked at each other." That night her husband "didn't sleep a wink and I didn't get much rest myself...
...Freshmen who like to mind other people's business if they can find a logical pretext, who like to write, take plotuces, or to do practical business work, the CRIMSON opens Its doors Wednesday night for the first News, Business, and Photographic competitions from the class...
Tonight and tomorrow night all Freshmen, whether or not they plan to enter the competition, are invited to visit the CRIMSON at 14 Plympton Street to see how the news is gathered, written, edited, and printed, to find out what the work entails...