Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week observed a new and particularly acrimonious development in the current advertising disagreement between tobacco & sugar, cigarets & candies, Lucky Strikes & Sweets. Begun last winter, when American Tobacco Co. initiated its famed "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet" series, the publicity war has already produced an astonishing number of alarms and excursions. Indignant outbursts have proceeded from Candy Weekly and other sugar centres. Competing cigarets have rebuked the Lucky campaign.* Advertising itself has engaged in an intermural struggle over "tainted" v. "honest" testimonials. The Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission have been invited...
...most ghostbusters is to expose the tricks performed by fake spirit mediums. Last week Ghostbuster Joseph Dunninger went a step farther. At a seance in the Manhattan offices of Science and Invention, in broad daylight, before 20 perplexed witnesses, he showed a number of "mystical" phenomena which fakers have not yet discovered...
...hand was placed on a table and a spectator was asked to choose a number and slowly count to it. When the number was reached the wax hand emphatically stopped the counting by a sharp...
...Baldwin '30 turned in the best score for the day's play, getting a 73. This is two over par for the course. Phillips Finlay '31 number one man on the team, played rather mediocre golf on the way out, but more than atoned for it on the second nine, coming in under...
With the quota for the first year class set at 600 students, applications for entrance to the Harvard School of Business Administration have already reached a total of 570 with more coming in continually. The number of applications received before May 1 this year exceeds by over 60 percent the figure for the corresponding period last year...