Word: postcarder
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...their misfortunes and ailments (once Holmes slipped on a piece of ice, again Pollock was struck by a bicyclist), in Washington heat and London fog, in the wonder that returning spring has for aging men. The year the Japanese sank the Russian fleet at Tsushima, Pollock dropped Holmes a postcard: "Certainly I believe you are as real as I am, but, as you are ejusdem generis with me, that does not make you a Ding an sich in the Kantian sense." The Italians grabbed Tripoli from Turkey, and Holmes wrote Pollock: "I have taken up Vita Nuova with Rossetti...
Treasurer Kendrick tried again on two more days, got nothing but a few more fry-sized nibbles. An inquiry came from a Texan who said, "I love lawsuits," admitted he knew nothing about molybdenum. From Grand Junction, Colo, came a telegram bidding $15, from Manhattan one offering $100. A postcard bid from Utica, N. Y. forgot to mention any figure at all. Kendrick gave up, turned the tax-sale certificate over to the county. The county-Climax tax squabble was back where it started...
...Club, whose main functions are to run the Ski Chalet in Pinkham Notch and supply material for the team, is electing officers for the season by postcard ballot. Latest returns according to Bill Wigglesworth show Tom Winship without any competition for the presidency and 17 votes on the state...
...same election in which the Digest poll went down to disaster a new kind of poll had its first public trial. Instead of inviting one & all to send in a postcard vote, it questioned a far smaller number of people about their opinions, carefully selecting those questioned in an effort to obtain a representative cross section of the population...
...tougher to cross. To refugees, reporters and mail it opens and closes with an exasperating unpredict ability: it is harder to get a letter from Vichy to Paris than from Vichy to Timbuktu. Last week the U. S. saw its first copy of a partial solution: a standardized postcard with blanks to be filled in. Even with blanks it suggested the sufferings of Frenchmen today: " 194 .... in good health tired, .... slightly, gravely, ill, wounded killed prisoner...