Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin debate started, Vishinsky took copious notes. Then he threw down his earphones and started to read a French Socialist paper. Then he started listening again. What he heard made him plainly uncomfortable...
...making money, but circulation had grown to 622,000 a month (compared to its rival Esquire's 665,076). Thus, Editor Vic Wagner and his staff were surprised when they got the bad news: their magazine would be killed with the December issue, to give its paper and press time to Street & Smith's booming quarterly, Mademoiselle's Living...
...Four years ago Walter H. Annenberg's Triangle Publications killed Click, a thriving magazine with 1,000,000 circulation, in order to use its paper for fast-growing Seventeen...
...sense, every newspaperman is bilingual. He speaks one language and often writes a quite different one. The dialect he writes is dictated by his paper's "style-book." As papers, like people, are crusty with peculiarities, the regional variations of this newspaper lingo have to be learned by the men who write it. Except on chains, no two papers' rules are ever quite the same...
Greek at Twelve. At swank St. Mark's School in Massachusetts, cherubic Edward John Trevor Davies found his U.S. schoolmates deficient in languages ("Everybody was surprised that I had studied Greek when I was twelve"), English grammar ("The average boy could not express himself on paper"), and European history ("Only 10% knew the number of the monarch of Great Britain...