Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON wishes to correct the error made in yesterday's paper in reporting the Varsity lacrosse match with Stevens Institute. The game was won by Harvard by a score of 3 to 1, and not by Stevens, as previously stated...
Besides editing and writing for his own paper, White has published several novels, and numerous essays and biographies. "A Certain Rich Man," his first novel, was published in 1909. His "Life of Woodrow Wilson," "Calvic Coolidge," and its sequel, the "Puritan In Babylon," published last year are among his more famous biographies...
...organism; it leaves little untouched. Examinations are no test of knowledge when the examined have had the questions spotted or stolen for them in advance by academic hijackers and have been crammed with the answers. An acceptable thesis means nothing when the material has been organized or the whole paper has been written by a tutoring school. A course credit is no fitting reward when the recipient has not turned a hand to secure it. A diploma is a valueless trinket when the graduate has gone through college without once exercising his brain, without once garnering an honest grade...
...reporter on the Washington Herald in his law-school days, long before Hearst bought & sold the Herald. He has had, however, another and longer connection with the business: the new head of the largest U. S. newsprint consumer has been since 1933 a director of International Paper Co., largest paper company in the world...
...Andrew Dennison, a Brunswick, Me. cobbler, found the shoe business heavy going. His eldest son Aaron, a Boston jeweler, suggested that he try making paper forms for jewelers' boxes. Soon this side line was giving crusty Andrew Dennison a tidy living and in 1855 he sold the enterprise to another son, Eliphalet Whorff Dennison, for $9,000. From this humble beginning eventually sprang Dennison Manufacturing Co. of Framingham, Mass., today the leading U. S. paper converter, with $10,400,000 in assets and 1938 sales of $12,528,000 from a line of 9,000 items including crepe paper...