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Word: nicholases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the gaslit era before cinema and radio, St. Nicholas was the No. 1 U. S. magazine for young people. Like the old quarry where swimming was forbidden, like the first ice on the pond in winter, it was an essential part of childhood-a storehouse of fruitful articles and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Nicholas to Woolworth's | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Many a youth last week had never heard of St. Nicholas, many a grown-up had forgotten it still existed. But alive it was, though senescent. Last week St. Nicholas, 66 years old, withdrew its foot from the grave, took a new lease on life, and went on sale exclusively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Nicholas to Woolworth's | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Thus passed into virtual oblivion the St. Nicholas that had nourished some of the major talents of a past generation. To St. Nicholas in 1886 young Richard Harding Davis sold his first story, about football at Princeton. For St. Nicholas Rudyard Kipling wrote Just So Stories, Mark Twain Tom Sawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Nicholas to Woolworth's | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Founded in 1873 by Charles Scribner's Sons, then taken over by the Century Co., St. Nicholas began to decline after World War I as children turned to movies, radio, comic strips, and children's tastes grew steadily more sophisticated. To hold its market St. Nicholas lowered its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Nicholas to Woolworth's | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

In 1934 St. Nicholas passed into the hands of stocky, dynamic President Roy Walker of Educational Publishing Corp. Publisher Walker wanted it as a classroom adjunct to The Grade Teacher, trade journal for educators. Then last year Woolworth's began to look around for new magazines to replace the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Nicholas to Woolworth's | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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