Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked with our tongues in our cheeks often-clipping the home papers and altering date lines, coining the expression that "it never rains on the Riviera and there's always snow in Switzerland" as we headed the press releases sent in by our advertisers, and damning the sheet for the gutless wonder it always has been-but there were times when I think our work refuted your claim the paper was run by "smalltown newspapermen...
...does to us!" Most of the "signatures" on Mr. Bilbo's petition were gathered from 45 States by her Peace Movement of Ethiopia, a repatriationist cult which has its headquarters at her apartment on Chicago's South Side. Bales of letters, cards, X-ed scraps of paper are stacked in every cranny, and more still pour in. Last week some 300 of her followers, who mostly are on Relief (as is she), arrived in Washington by truck and car, so fagged that they could hardly drag themselves up the Capitol steps to hear their friend from Mississippi...
...years, has come the unenviable task of "opening" the largest peacetime budgets in Britain's history. Last week, before a crowded House of Commons, he again appeared with the little worn red-leather dispatch box carried by Gladstone, opened it and ceremoniously drew out his sheafs of paper and, in an uninspired, low, monotonous tone of voice, proceeded coldly to name astronomical figures the like of which Parliament had never heard...
Professor Shapley spoke yesterday morning before a symposiumn of twenty leading astronomers, assembled at the dedication ceremonies of the new 82-inch reflector of the McDonald Observatory. Professor Shapley's paper dealt with the use of variable stars in studying structure and dimensions of stellar systems...
Reasons prompting the Princeton proposal of entering the race were based on the fact that the Tiger crew has no climax race. Admitting that recent Nassau shells have not ranked with those of their Big Three rivals, the paper's columnist suggested that improvement in crew calibre might result from competition at New London...