Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acres of wheatland, ruefully counted up what the 90? drop in wheat meant to him. Said he: "I've lost $54,000 in the last few days. That's more money than I was worth in 1940. But I figure it's just a paper loss. We haven't been killed, just wounded...
Editor Bowden had a bitter moment-his paper would not be published for two days. Then he remembered that he was the Okeechobee correspondent for the Associated Press. He telephoned the A.P. office in Jacksonville. A few hours later, the whole U.S. journalistic horizon glowed a bright pink with the fireworks he had touched...
Fronts & Purges. Marx did not absorb the morals of the dialectic immediately. When, at 24, he became editor of the Rheinische Zeitung (a paper owned by bourgeois and written by their radical sons), he promptly ordered contributors to stop smuggling socialist propaganda into casual drama reviews; he said the practice was downright "immoral...
...that such a full-blown super-state, if somebody had tried to enforce it, would have torn the world to tatters right there and then. The men who framed the charter were practical, he said; they knew that the basic differences between the big powers were too great for paper laws to resolve...
According to former Swarthmore students now studying in Harvard graduate schools. The Phoenix has often aroused alumni ire in the past, though it never before has been suspended. Last fall, the paper stirred another hornets' nest when it accused Swarthmore of employing discriminatory admissions policies...