Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goaded to fury, the Viscountal Daily Mail flung the Post's figures full in its Ducal face. Screamed the Mail: "In close upon two years, the utmost efforts of the Morning Post have succeeded in adding 26,246 copies to its daily net sales. In the same period the net sales of the Daily Mail have risen by 183,579 copies a day." A Harmsworth descended to abysmal (for a ist Viscount) vulgarity, shouted: "No advocacy of the Morning Post can obscure the fact that for fifty years it has been preeminently the organ of 'belowstairs' . . . finds...
Coincidentally, Packard issued last week its statement for the nine months ending May 31, showing a net profit of $17,803,304 or $5.92 per share of common stock. This is nearly double the earnings for the same period...
...exotic sicknesses-African Sleeping Sickness and how it had been cured by Bayer, malaria injections and how they helped general paralysis (TIME, April 2. June 4). For several minutes Professor Kappers stressed the past success of quiet cures wrought in maniacs and melancholies by somnifen injections over a period of 14 days. Somnifen produces a hypnotic sleep in which there is loss of consciousness, but no relaxation of reflexes. The patient can therefore be roused to take nourishment, attend to physical needs, etc., dropping off to sleep again as soon as he is left alone. It has been used...
...promise every assistance in the reorganization of the marketing system on sounder and more economical lines and, where diversification is needed, Government financial assistance during the period of transition...
More appropriate seemed the second but obscure meaning of lustrum: a period of five years. On September 15, 1928, Dictator de Rivera will have been in power for one whole lustrum. "At that time," he declared last week, "my government will address the country respecting the new laws [said to envision merely the creation of an advisory Assembly, with Parliament continuing suppressed]. . . . These measures will be submitted to a national plebiscite...