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Word: posted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although it has done some positive good, the so-called Newburyport Plan (popular misconceptions to the side) has not brought about general price reductions. Nor was it intended to. Essentially, the ten percent retail price reduction movement is a somber, out of season, post-Christmas clearing sale. Many merchants, rightfully fearful that shoddy, overpriced good would rot on shelves, to be written off as complete losses, saw the light and began selling at wholesale cost. The resultant waves of buying have emptied shelves at no net loss. While a plasma infusion to the store-keeper, this phenomenon has no effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pre-Fire Sale | 5/9/1947 | See Source »

...with Flynn," chortled the Dudley nine yesterday as big Leo came in from shortstop to take over the pitching post in an inter-House baseball game with Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Trips Dudley Nine, 10-4, As Donahoe Pitches Six-Hitter | 5/7/1947 | See Source »

...long overdue word of praise must be accorded to the Club's accompanists. At no time this year has their playing been mere accompaniment. Although the piauists failed to keep up with the combined audience and Glee Club in the post-concert singing of college songs, no one seemed to mind. And the squirrels were treated to the first atonal, syncopated version of Harvardiana on record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 5/7/1947 | See Source »

...golden, her mouth is a splash (some times a slash) of scarlet, and her perfume is faint, elusive. These two daydreams, so happily cast on any Hollywood lot or in any adolescent's bedroom, are naturally not to be frustrated by a lot of gunplay and dastardy in post-Civil War New Or leans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scarlet Splash | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...second level, purely practical problems of music criticism were discussed. Miss Olga Samaroff, pianist, educator, and former music critic of the New York Post, hit the most basic of these when she pointed out the importance of critics in making or breaking artists...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Three - Day University Symposium On Music Criticism Popular Success | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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