Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next he applied his gelatine to a strip of paper, which might be rolled compactly. And that led to a new kind of camera, the Kodak (1888). Mr. Eastman invented the name by fiddling with a batch of separate letters until he put together a group that looked alluring and sounded sensible. The word is now a common noun, verb and radical in European languages. It appears in standard dictionaries...
...devoting himself assiduously to his studies he is somehow adding to the intellectual prestige of his Alma Mater and storing up future treasures for himself. It is Mrs. Putnam's intention that the scholar who aids his college to victory over a rival by writing an excellent competitive examination paper may feel that he is contributing as directly to the college's glory as the halfback who scores a winning touchdown in the big game of the season. If the experiment receives the publicity it seems destined to attract, the brilliant student also can no longer complain that his efforts...
Naturally Mr. Aldred did not stress that his great competitor in the placing of Italian electric power securities is the house of Blair & Co., of Manhattan, who are handling more than $50,000,000 of such paper...
Swift coursing news must be speeded onto paper by a lightning, decisive mind. Necessarily the titans of newspaperdom have been dictators-James Gordon Bennett, Joseph Pulitzer, Viscount Northcliffe. These men had no time, in business moments, for Democracy or its delays. They are dead, but their dynamic Shades must have approved, last week, when that trampler upon Democracy, Signor Benito Mussolini,* was impetuously championed in the London Daily Mail by its owner, Lord Rothermere, brother and successor to the late Lord Northcliffe...
...Paris apartment and she told them: "I am training my two sons to take over the property when I am too old. My policy as a newspaper publisher is based on the iron rules my husband followed: accurate and brightly presented news and pictures, a well printed paper and good and truthful advertising." The advertising may be truthful; it is certainly scarce as it is in all French papers, advertisingly backward...