Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chairmen, held court. The four women members, all in black, greeted their many admirers. New York's Snell (Rules Committee) stood behind his aisle table, frowning, sharpening a pencil with a blunt watch chain knife. Leader Tilson beamed at his flock and rearranged neatly typed resolutions on blue paper. The galleries, splotched with color, were long ago overflowing. Mrs. Alice Longworth, the Speaker's wife, was there, incognito, because she failed to remove her brown hat and reveal her gleaming hair...
...Other industries, which are not comprised in these great groups-food industries, leather working, rubber, pottery, porcelain, glass, paper, etc.-might be cited to illustrate how home productions have become so advanced that . . . there remain great surpluses in many cases for foreign markets...
...examination will be held in twenty colleges, which will determine the winner in each of these institutions. The winning representatives from each college will take the final examination for the national prize. A prize of $500 and a gold medal will be given to the student writing the best paper in the competition among the 20 colleges. Three prizes are offered to winners in each of the participating institutions. The New York Times medal and $150 in cash constitutes the first prize, while second and third prizes are $75 and $25 respectively...
Pach in his recent book states, "Glancing through the rotogravure supplement of the paper and enjoying the photographs of swimmers, statesmen and stage-dancers, one's eye was caught by the big flag, and one idly read the caption to see whether this was a belated poster from some Y. M. C. A. drive during the recent war, or an invitation to prepare for the next one, in Nicaragua or a place like that, or whether it was not just the advertisement of a firm such as supplies uniforms for military schools and training camps--a masculine pendant...
...investor had bought and paid for one share of each of these stocks in October, his bill would have been $3,143.00. In. November he could have sold them for $4,533.50, realizing an average profit of about $75 a share. Actually, much paper profit was turned into cash on the market's only day of weakness (Wednesday). The Wall Street Journal reported that the Brothers Fisher sold their 300,000-share holdings of Radio. Their investment cannot have netted them less than $30,000,000, may have made...