Word: postcarder
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...time when the people in University Hall are spending their leisure hours sending out postcards telling students their marks in the recent examinations. If a postcard were to be published telling about the current bill at the University, it would probably read C plus or B minus, depending on whether one does not or one does like Jeanette MacDonald...
George Bernard Shaw scribbled on a postcard, "Plays of that author do not attract me; I never go to one if I can possibly help it," sent the postcard to Welwyn Garden City, Herts, England, where he had been invited to attend a performance of his Saint Joan...
...remedy this accursed condition, funny Vitaminologist McCay proposed that the League of Nations begin a vitamin registry to identify vitamins by numbers. Then "when a new vitamin is to be postulated, the discoverer will need only to address a postcard to the central agency. Thus if a specific growth factor is discovered for moose by some nutrition student working in northern Ontario, he will only need address a request to the central agency. By return mail he will be assigned some number such as 1,572, and this will be recorded thenceforth. As specific properties of this number are developed...
...placidly this summer on the rolling bosom of the Pacific. Only too glad was the California State Fisheries Laboratory, which released them from its ship the Bluefin, to have lucky fishermen find them floating in the deep. For the bottles which contained not wine but sand and a return postcard, were released to test the ocean drift which carries the pelagic eggs and larvae of sardines. Last week it was reported that only 150 bottles had been found. The farthest traveler had drifted 400 miles south, to Lower California, in 38 days...
...each of 229 homes where the sun rarely penetrates in the slums of Greater New York City there came last week a penny postcard. Each card carried the message, "Arrived safely at Life Camp...