Word: paragraphing
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...beginning we had a policy of ending many of our stories with a final paragraph headed "Significance," but we gave that up about 15 years ago-partly because it was too mechanical, partly because it did seem that all our stories should be written so their significance would be clear long before the last paragraph...
...rationing board. Her ideas: reduce OPA's printed matter and its "complex reiteration"; reduce the "verbiage to a point of clarity"; have a little faith in the average merchant's honesty and stop prying into his affairs; cut down on exhortations to the consumer; throw out the "paragraph dictators and their Bourbonesque indifference to the attitude of the general public...
With the sun a shining and the breeze a blowing, and eight and three-quarter hours of liberty ahead, please excuse us for tossing off a paragraph or so of news, and then a few ditties to fill up space. We promise to be more conscientious next week...
...really don't object to being called William M. Flook, Jr. '46, but when in the same paragraph you call the Network the Netwirk, I start getting mad and demanding a printed apology. William M. Flook, Jr. '44 President, Harvard Crimson Network...
...crowd, seemed to have notified the Tribune of the meeting's prime importance, because the Tribune sent aging Arthur Evans, its top-rung reporter on local politics, to cover the meeting. The news was coyly buried on p. 3, did not mention the McCormick boom until the second paragraph...