Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liberty of writing you. I'm afraid I am a case of maladjustment or something. It has just come on recently, and I never had any trouble before. In college I never got amnesia or even fainting spells. I never even considered such a stunt as I recently read about of one of your boys paddling to Florida in a canoe, Have you had any luck with later life maladjustments? Very sincerely, Harold A. Gorilla...
...beginning of the school year, the University made its only book bequest to the non-residents, presenting them with eight copies of a book required for outside reading in one of the history courses. Although these eight books were widely read, they make up all of the Center's library. Considering that there are almost three hundred students who use the Non-resident Center, the University should supplement the cafeteria and the common room with a reading room...
Here in Oxford all the best people read TIME every week. Your reviewer did us a disservice when he told us [Feb. 14] that Dry Guillotine was "heavy with unrelieved nightmare." I finally read it and now walk on air, feeling "What a piece of work is man!"-ish and convinced that among yeggmen, politicians, editors and college freshmen there may be-must be-something of the spirit that carried Rene Belbenoit to his goal...
Sharp-witted Amster Spiro, city editor of William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal-American, knows little about playing parlor games, including bridge, but he does know a good thing when he sees it. Over a year ago, when he read that "Monopoly" was selling by millions, his newspaper mind envied such profitable circulation. Forthwith he devised a newspaper game, "Flash News." It was too complicated to sell much more than 10,000 sets (at $2.50) and is presently being simplified. From "Flash News" Editor Spiro did learn, however, that there is money in games...
...back up this assertion, Lawyer McCall read a list of such cases all but the first of which have been turned up by SEC since the market crash gave many brokers the choice of crockery or failure-Richard J. Daly, who pleaded guilty to hypothecating $150,000 in customers' securities last June; two partners of Jesse Hyman & Co. convicted of grand larceny together with William F. Enright, who had charge of the security box of Winthrop, Mitchell & Co., after this reputable firm discovered Enright had lent some $2,000,000 of its customers' funds to the Hyman partners...