Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star's monopoly in Kansas City dates from 1942, when the Journal-Post gave up a long-lost fight. The Star also has a country weekly, which goes to 440,000 farmers in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma...
...Movies have never been popular with the churchmen of Sioux Center. An outsider wanted to erect a theater in 1938, but a popular referendum stopped him. The youngsters took to driving the eleven miles to Orange City's Tulip Theatre. A year ago, the Sioux Center American Legion post leased the Town Hall for a nightly (except Sunday) movie. The resulting uproar split the town squarely down the middle. Merchants liked the trade it brought to town; some citizens thought it kept Sioux Center's youth off the highways. But the Ministerial Association, led by young...
...make such a decision. ... On account of the contributions we made during the northern expedition and the war of resistance, the foundation of the republic has been greatly strengthened. The idea of democracy has become a popular sentiment. In these circumstances our party does not need to keep the post and honor of the presidency. . . . We can entrust to a person outside the party the grave responsibility of making the constitution a living thing. Only in this manner shall we rally the support of the people...
...need for a sex pattern. Patterns, Dr. Mead said, are necessary, and are found in every society "apparently to reward men for staying home at night, which doesn't seem to be biologically necessary." There is a danger that people may regard Kinsey as a sort of Emily Post of sex; his book "may increase the number of young men who indulge in 'outlets' with a sense of hygienic self-righteousness...
...where they were greatly outnumbered by the women. Although Yale and Princeton might have claimed the initial advantage by being quartered in Hamilton's Bermudiana Hotel, right in the midst of the visiting girls' college groups, Harvard players are convinced that their quarters at Prospect were superior, and several post-Yale-game parties out at the Harvard-British Officers Mess serve as confirmations to their claim