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Word: pleasingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleasing to all admen was disclosure that the gold medal "for distinguished contemporary service to advertising" had been awarded to Frederick Kendall, Publisher of Advertising & Selling. Had the reasons for the award not been announced, the profession could have guessed that they were: "For having the courage to open the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prize Day | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

These chapters rearrange some of the portraits in the gallery of letters and lucidity of style adds grace to the arguments employed to justify the changes. If Professor Garrod does not destroy contrary convictions he shakes them thoroughly. Arnold, Clough, Emerson, and Bridges, he treats with scholastic insight too rarely...

Author: By G. F. M., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/5/1931 | See Source »

The Vagabond has, in the last few years; become particularly "architecture-conscious", (if he can use such an ill-sounding phrase). He has his reasons. From his lofty tower in Memorial Hall he looks down on one of the most remarkable piebald roofs in America, and the maze of nineteenth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/4/1931 | See Source »

THE old trite saying that the only really satisfactory anthology is that which the individual reader composes for himself is perhaps quite true. Nevertheless there are anthologies and anthologies and their degree of excellency depends on the discrimination of the compiler and his sense of what selections should be juxtaposed...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: BOOKENDS | 2/25/1931 | See Source »

The pieces chosen are both prose and poetry and are picked from all periods and sources of English literature. Perhaps the most pleasing prose selections to the reviewer were those from Gilbert White's "Natural History of Selborne," but the favorites will probably vary with each individual reader. It is...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: BOOKENDS | 2/25/1931 | See Source »

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