Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economic forces proved too much for the female journalists, though, and by 1933 the editors of the paper were forced to admit that, "As a daily, its main distinction in the past two years was that it came out at least twice a week." The chronicle adopted its former name, The Radcliffe News, and resigned itself to weekly publication...
...News has never been free from servitude to King Mammon. The paper for the past few years has been partially subsidized by an annual compulsory subscription of $2.25 per student. Next week the student body will decide by referendum whether to retain the subsidy or whether to throw the News into the stormy waters of free competition...
...other hand, there are many who think the News would learn to swim if its life preserver were taken away. Of course, no paper at Radcliffe today could arouse the enthusiasm of the Radcliffe today could arouse the enthusiasm of the Radcliffe Fortnightly, the original 'Cliffe publication...
...Arthur C. (for Charles) Clarke, a science-fiction writer with rare qualifications. Author Clarke holds a first-class honors degree in science from King's College, University of London, served as chairman of the British Interplanetary Society (1950-53), and as early as 1945 he published a pioneering paper on using a space station for radio and television relay. A ten-year sifting of Author Clarke's tales of the space age, The Other Side of the Sky is heavily weighted with Victorian Age flummery, but offers sound science along with good...
Wire Service. In London, a survey published by Lloyd's Bank on the fate of 100,000 paper clips revealed that out of the 100,000 clips, only one-fifth served their proper function; 14,163 were twisted and broken during telephone conversations; 19,413 were used as card-game stakes; 7,200 became makeshift hooks for garter belts and brassieres; 5,434 were converted to toothpicks or ear cleaners; 5,308 were used as nail cleaners; 3,916 became pipe cleaners; and the balance were dropped on the floor and swept away, or swallowed by children...