Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general makeup has misrepresented the colleges and created false impressions about college life. . . . College Humor is claimed to be receiving advertisements on the assumption that as a magazine it covers the college field whereas the general belief expressed is that it does not cover the field but is read mostly by factory girls, drug store cowboys and high school students...
Potent source of indignation was an advertising survey published by College Humor estimating the cost of a full page advertisement in 86 college comics at $3,409.84, which by tacit inference was about $2,000 more than the same advertisement would cost in College Humor, presumably read by the same public...
...still point to their survey which covered seven fraternities in colleges from Yale to Wisconsin, from Syracuse to the University of Virginia, where at Kappa Sigma more than 95% of the fraternities were readers of College Humor. The result of this survey showed that out of 276 collegians, 242 read College Humor regularly, frequently or occasionally...
...seven languages-German, Russian, Lithuanian, Polish, Yiddish, Lettish, Esthonian-the Germans posted their proclamations, but Grischa could read not one of any seven, and in a few hours he was imprisoned again. For, the newest ordinance read that in the name of discipline all Russian deserters would be executed-dour example to weary-hearted German soldiers. Grischa, alias Deserter Bjuscheff, was promptly sentenced, whereupon he took refuge in confessing his camouflage. His peasant simplicity won belief in the hearts of guards, officers, and even old Commander von Lychow...
...therefore, took seriously the press accounts of the final, frantic cablegram to the German sanitorium which was not read by Jaime Del Rio since just before it came he had died of bloodpoisoning; or the story about the way Mrs. Del Rio's mother told her the news...