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Word: newsstand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taking place earlier than usual this year in order not to have it interfere with the April hour examinations. Unlike the previous dances, this one is going to be a small one in all respects. Only 450 tickets will be sold, and they will be on sale at the newsstand in the Union as long as the supply holds out. The big living room alone will be used for dancing, the reading room will be reserved for sitting out, and bridge tables and cards will be available. The upper floor will be called into service only for the ladies' dressing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUDDING AND UNION GIVE ANNUAL SPRING DANCES | 3/12/1926 | See Source »

...students who intend to avail themselves of the offer of the Colonial Club should leave their names with the doorman or the newsstand at the Union. If sufficient interest is shown in the project it is probable that the Union will organize tournaments in bowling such as have previously been held in squash and billiards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLONIAL CLUB WILL GIVE STUDENTS CHANCE TO BOWL | 1/21/1926 | See Source »

...glancing back at the lines he has written, your reviewer feels that his praise, while not stinted, is nevertheless just and to the point. If the courtesy of the Advocate had not forestalled him from purchasing his copy at the newsstand, he had readily parted with thirty-five cents for so entertaining an hour. There is in the current number surprisingly little that is adolescent, little that does not bear the stamp of mature literary discretion. In your reviewer's humble opinion, the rejuvenation of the College's oldest paper has resulted in a charm, a distinction, and an engaging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRAISES THE NEW ADVOCATE MAKEUP | 1/13/1926 | See Source »

...admire the work on your covers by such nationally known artists as Gordon Stevenson and S. J. Woolf, and always look forward eagerly to see what new face is to greet me from the newsstand. Is it not sufficient that I actually pay you more, buying TIME copy by copy, than if I subscribed? Should I not be entitled to the "right" possessed by the subscribers who pay you less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Incomplete | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...Newsstand Buyer Frick's bid for the Otto H. Kahn cannot be accepted. TIME'S "discriminating" rule was concocted by a shrewd business manager who intended rather to cause regular subscribers to congratulate one another than to bring unhappiness to newsstand customers. Possibly Mr. Frick knows a subscriber-friend who will make for him the purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Incomplete | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

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