Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considering mystery&151;&&151;adventure-story readers as a mass market, publishers have tried various methods to supply it: the omnibus&151;Dorothy Sayers, Carolyn Wells; the monthly release&151; Crime Club, Mystery League; uniform binding&151;the early French translations, Fantomas, the works of Wilkie Collins. Last week, Appleton-Century brought out a set of 15 thrillers characterized as The Tired Business Man's Library. The series includes the soothing romance inspired by centre-fire .45's, thrills inculcated by euphemistic detectives, and the shakes and chills of horror by night. Included are no omnibi, but individual...
...organized as Fairmount Institute in 1892, taken over by the city in 1926. It has a rolling, 80-acre campus on the city's edge, some 2,000 students enrolled in colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration & Industry, Education, Fine & Applied Arts, Aeronautics. Most famed is its Omnibus College which each summer takes 700 students on a camping-out bus ride over the U. S. and Canada, with courses and credits on the go (TIME, July...
...area of 8,000 square miles. (Total area of England 50,327 sq. mi.; Scotland 30,405; Wales 8,016.) Two steps off the curb pedestrians were completely lost. Conductors carrying great sizzling gasoline flares stalked like old-time linkboys ahead of their buses. Many a scarlet omnibus caught fire from the heat of repeatedly jammed brakes. A pair of wild ducks, lost and dizzy, dropped quacking disconsolately in the middle of the Strand. Rail traffic was paralyzed. A Wimbledon train sat on a siding for hours while fog-bound commuters, jamming every compartment, sang "Who's Afraid...
...parts of the building. With these books stripped from the shelves, the House library would become as disappointing a place as Widener, where only too often the desired book "will be back December 4." Many a time when a student will want to relax of an evening in the "Omnibus of Crime," that worthy work will be lying untouched in the darkness of some bureau drawer...
Like a quartered earthworm, the Municipal University of Wichita's summer school was crawling over southeast Canada last week. Outside Montreal were parked buses, tents, girls singing, and lingerie on the line. Spaced a day apart in Quebec and Ontario were three other sections of the Omnibus College, making its eleventh annual tour under the direction of Professor William Marion Goldsmith...