Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Name the President or the President-maker or the President's biographer whose scions broke into print...
...undergraduates must be a dull business for instructors, particularly in the lower reaches of the academic world. One of the rare pleasures which relieve the tedium for them is to bustle importantly into an examination, strip the wrapping from the examination papers, and view for the first time in print those mighty cerebral efforts which are to be the nemesis of the class. Then suddenly half way through the test it will be discovered that question 2a is all wrong; a correction will be announced and question 2a will be rewritten with muted curses...
German editors who have not even dared hint the split between Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the No. 2 Nazi, bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, at last had something they could print last week. Herr Hitler had omitted General Göring from the list of high officials to whom he sent New Year's greetings, and Premier Göring had snubbed the Chancellor in kind. Berlin rocked at the news...
...Manhattan, the 117-year-old American Bible Society celebrated a century of service to China. Vice President John R. Mott recalled that in 1833 the Society sent $3,000 to Dr. Elijah C. Bridgman, first U. S. Protestant missionary to China, to print scriptures in Chinese. Since then the Society has spent $2,897,383 distributing nearly 70,000,000 volumes of scripture in China...
...Hammett fans, of varying brow-heights, unite in admiring his hardboiled, naturalistic narrative and dialog. Some of them will feel, however, that for once Hammett's naturalism has taken him too far, when Nick's wife asks her husband a question rarely, if ever, seen in print...