Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competitions will last nine weeks, ending directly after the close of the mid-year period. Ferreting out news, covering assignments, and writing up the stories which appear in the daily issues of the paper constitute the chief part of the news candidates work. Ability to get advertising is usually the decisive factor in the competition for the Business board, although the collection of subscriptions and a certain amount of office work also play a part in the Business aspirant's career...
...Harvard Fund, and of 45 percent in the number of subscribers to date in 1927, was announced yesterday by the Harvard Fund Council, which reported that $148,481 had been contributed by 4,767 men this year as compared with $123,702 from 3,269 men for the corresponding period...
...forced to use the entire seat thus getting the benefit of back rest. Also, the chair is rounded in front so that arteries are not pinched. From March to June (1927) 6,000 "posture chairs" were sold in contrast to 2,000 armless revolving chairs during the same period...
...thunderstorm at the end of the short astonishing day. Never attaining the complete objectivity that is the property of most great writing, Author Kennedy balances her characters against each other, slanting her satire at each through the minds of the others. Her work has not yet reached independence of period or place; the praise which it demands and receives must be qualified with some such phrase as, "the best book of the year," "the most brilliant novel of its kind written in a decade." But this perhaps is partly due to the caution of critics who are afraid to have...
These books include "The English Madrigal Composers," in which Canon Fellowes gives a study of the English madrigal from every point of view, and a critical survey of the composers of the period, and "English Madrigal Verse," a collection of all the typical verse produced by the madrigalists and lutanists of Elizabethan and Jacobean...