Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President-elect Sterling prepared to move in, Stanford's Acting President Alvin C. Eurich made plans to move on. Last week he became first president of New York's State University, which exists only on paper. After next March the job will make him top man on the campuses of 32 state colleges and institutes, which will have local administrators but be controlled from Albany. A former professor of education, Psychologist Eurich likes to think up tests. His best known one, which he and Elmo C. Wilson devised: TIME'S Current Affairs Test...
...town's normal school, which had been used as barracks and hospital by successive waves of French, German and British troops. Students made benches and desks out of crates and rubble, plugged up windows with rags. For the rest of the war, with hardly a textbook, little paper, and no typewriters, professors lectured and gave examinations just as before. "We felt that if we could hold out for two or three years," explained one professor, "the university would be saved...
...since the Madison (Wis.) Democrat died in 1920 had the state capital boasted a morning newspaper of its own. But for 30 years, two papers had battled it out in the afternoon field. Last week Madison (pop. 67,500) learned, with mixed feelings, that it would get a morning paper and lose an afternoon one. The 110-year-old Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 36,000) was moving to the morning field,* leaving the Capital Times (circ. 41,000) to carry on loudly and lustily alone...
...Journal and the Times, which have had a single advertising department since 1934, had also decided to consolidate their management and production; both will print in the expanded Journal plant. The Times will drop its Sunday paper. But the editorial departments will remain separate and competitive. Rising costs and falling profits had dictated the monopolistic step to divide up the market...
...were confused when they arrived for lunch. For one thing, they couldn't find the silverware; for another they couldn't find the butter, and after all what good is a turkey dinner without butter? Both were on the tables, along with mansize paper napkins, and a bowl of real fruit...