Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ranks would not matter in themselves. The point is that they necessitate large staffs-bandsmen, servants, clerks, radio and signal men, orderlies, typists and typewriters. "Yeomen," wrote Rear Admiral Magruder, "are the men who do the typing and paper work -that is, the red tape." Hazy distribution of authority and inactive navy yards were two more subjects discussed. Then some more figures for 1926: "To operate, maintain, repair and supply the vessels of the fleet cost $163,000,000. And to administer this sum cost nearly half as much, or $77,500,000. ". . . For every dollar expended for repairs...
...Pope's placing Leon Daudet's newspaper L'Action Francaise on the Index Expurgatorius (thus banning it at once from all Roman Catholic homes). His Holiness' policy was based on the conviction that the wily, obstreperous editors of L'Action were using their paper (devoted to the royalist cause) as the organ of a school of thought whose doctrines are absolutely irreconcilable with Catholicism. The Cardinal's objection was said to be based on a conviction that political activities of royalist Catholics should not be censured by the Pope...
...paper claims that over half of the modern Americans who will cheer for Purdue have never even been through the town in which Purdue is located. Probably that is true, but just the same 300 modern Americans will be in the stands stratuing every chord in their vocal organs and they will root with might and main for "dear old Purdue." We had never thought of it before but that little phrase "dear old Purdue" is almost as catching as one sometimes connected with Harvard, and we are glad newspaper...
...General Electric Co. laboratories have invented an instrument to register the presence of as little as one part of mercury in 20,000,000 parts of atmosphere. Before the poison is detected by symptoms of illness in drooping employes, a coating of yellow sulphide on a strip of paper gives the signal by turning black (the result of contact between selenium sulphide and mercury). The degree of blackness is photographed by shining a light through the strip of yellow sulphide. If the sulphide has turned dark, less light will penetrate; if black, no light will penetrate. This is recorded...
Today the Pictorial Supplement of the CRIMSON makes its first appearance in a new form. Enlarged, and with the pictures appearing in large individual plates rather than in a composite makeup, the paper will be more attractive in appearance and less confusing than former issues have been...