Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose sharp eyes and ears miss very little that is written or said about U. S. education, last week issued his annual report on the state of the nation's biggest business.* Mr. Sargent, prefacing the 23rd edition of his famed handbook of private schools with a 160-page sound-off,† found the state of education more than normally alarming. During the year private schools, for example, were sharply criticized-luxurious Lawrenceville's Headmaster Allan V. Heely went so far as to call them an expensive and perhaps useless luxury. Independent old Mr. Sargent seconded the motion...
...entire committee goggled at a book compiled by the Arts Project, a catalogue of female models available to its workers. It contained page after page of women's photographs. Negroes and Whites, most of them nudes...
This document, a full-page advertisement in the London Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, was the latest manifestation of a religious eccentricity which has mildly amused the Church of England for 150 years. Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was a pious British servant woman who, like many another simple mind, came a cropper in the mysteries of the Book of Revelation...
...Doodling statisticians have counted up names of 700 rivers in the 20-page Anna Livia section...
...feels that these conditions could and should be eliminated. But it might be pointed out that as long as the only weapons used are the refusal of advertisements and publicizing the evil there can be no hope of success. Such tactics only move tutoring school ads from the back pages to the front page headlines with nothing but a loss to the business board and a little editorial steam blown off. --Daily Princetonian...