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Word: readerless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1924-1924
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Although a work of history was once condemned to go readerless because of a reviewer's remark-it was the only remark, in fact, that he made on the volume-that it weighed 14 Ibs.; although the publishers of the last edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica did not, by way of advertisement, call attention to the enormous bulk and displacement of the publication; although few pianos are sold simply on the strength of the fact that it takes eight men to move them, The New York Times, in its issue for Thursday, Oct. 16, issued the following gasconade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Size | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

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