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Word: printings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rites like a muddy dog at a church wedding. All the advertisements both fore and aft of the main matter are insidious variations on insidious originals. Regrettably, the editors have let their youthful spirits run away with them a bit in the main portion of the magazine, where they print a sprinkling of jokes and drawings that even a college humorous publication would have the taste to omit. Whether willingly or not, the monarchs of trade are having their false whiskers peeled off and their thrones jerked from under them; and still the slaughter goes on. Ballyhoo, even though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BURP | 10/24/1931 | See Source »

...Ives has worked out the problems of another method, which requires no special glasses or effort for the observer. He calls it "parallax panoramagram." An object is photographed from many points of view through a grating. The grating deflects and breaks up the image on the negative. The positive print is a blur unless viewed through a grating the duplicate of the camera's. Still pictures made and scanned this way are brilliantly realistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stereoscopy | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...always off the key. It is important." To order them to be silent was impossible for kindly Professor Shaw. Besides, their reaction might be more strident whistling. He thought of a ruse. For the university daily he wrote an article shaming whistlers in general. But the paper did not print it. Last week some New York University students who work as "campus" correspondents for the local dailies were be wailing the scantiness of university news. Professor Shaw dug up and gave them his diatribe against whistling. "I never dreamed such a thing would cause such a stir," roared he last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whistling Morons | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...these subsidiary activities have been placed in other hands, the literary monthly has been left with more ample opportunity and attention less distracted to perform functions more important and fundamental, to publish the best of undergraduate writing, to allow the newest generation of authors to try its wings in print, to provide a healthy vent for the ideas and abilities of these aspiring writes, and to subject them and their efforts to a healthy criticism...

Author: By C. C. Abbott, | Title: FRESHMAN NUMBER OF ADVOCATE IS REVIEWED BY C. C. ABBOTT '28 | 10/3/1931 | See Source »

...kept his regular appointment with the Press. As correspondents encircled his desk, there was talk but no quotable news. Next morning, however, most metropolitan newspapers in the land ran almost identical front-page stories from Washington. It was the kind of dispatch President Hoover was glad to see in print, though nowhere was he personally mentioned. Knowing readers suspected White House inspiration, under the Hoover system of supplying correspondents with "background" which they are not privileged to attribute directly to the President. The gist of the story was as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Keep Smiling | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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