Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish here to express my admiration for this weekly news periodical. The LETTERS section is a veritable "Comedie humaine." I disagree thoroughly with all of your critics; 1 enjoy your language and the manner of most all your "write-ups." The report of the Florida disaster was tremendously effective: "midnight rain came softly pattering like children's footsteps" is fine; "People drowned like trapped puppies to the frivolous dirge of tinkling glass" ; "creatures crept-pawed dazedly-sought kin-bodies"-what a picture! Desolation ; and then "ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses." And so on. I do not mind "famed...
There had been a premature announcement of Dr. Coolidge's ray and tube, saying that they were so powerful they would completely disintegrate the body of a mouse in a fraction of a second's exposure. Dr. Coolidge did not verify this report, but the Franklin Institute members heard of or witnessed the following...
...candidates for this year's University Squash team should report at the Squash Courts at 5 o'clock...
...dearth of coxswains has resulted from the advent of 120 new oarsmen on the river, and all undergraduates weighing less than 125 pounds, upper classmen preferably but Freshmen as well, are urged to report this afternoon at their respective boathouses. Previous experience is desirable, but entirely unnecessary. If possible the candidates should report in warm athletic clothes, for everyone will be afforded an opportunity...
...laboratory for a regulated carouse interrupted their toping with draughts at the oxygen tank, remained sober. If only he could make a "dead drunk" man or woman come out of a coma. . . . For nine months he sought a "dead drunk" in Utrecht-in vain. Now, in his report to the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde (Leipzig), he recommends that U. S. hospitals study his methods...