Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME [Sept. 5] failed to credit famous Artist Will Shuster for our fiesta's Zozobra. [He] has made it annually for a quarter-century...
...good sales, you say: "The trend was so terrific that some of the old-style confession magazines confessed that they were in trouble." Presumably the trouble referred to was financial trouble, inasmuch as you quote from my midyear letter to our stockholders which reported a loss in the second quarter of 1949 of $11,635, after showing a profit in the first quarter...
...name was not quite as bad as Dogpatch or Skunk Hollow, but it was not even granted the same recognition. When Mahwah appeared on envelopes, mail sorters sighed patiently, made a correction and directed the letter to Rahway or Mohawk. Last week the aroused businessmen of Mahwah took a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times to set people straight about their town...
...will pass," said Professor Doyle to the Modern Language Association last week; but meanwhile, "it is continuing the same course of wild claims, blanket condemnation of 'traditional' subjects, anti-intellectualism, and contempt for 'book learning' that have characterized its predecessors for more than a quarter of a century...
...quarter of a century later, Hideyoshi's successor as shogun, arch-isolationist Tokugawa Ieyasu, built a stronghold at Nagoya, 100 miles northeast of Osaka, Ieyasu wanted neither conquest nor foreign trade; he clamped the lid on Japan, and his family kept it there for 300 years. Like Osaka, Nagoya grew up in the image of its maker. Nagoyans put classical poems, flower arrangements and the complex subtleties of the Japanese tea ceremony ahead of commerce and industry; they dislike to hustle; there is still a feeling that trade is somewhat vulgar...