Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared to review the code's price schedule, but, meantime, violators would be turned over to the Federal Trade Commission unless they promised to go and sin no more against Recovery. On the strength of this combined promise and threat, 50 of the littlest cleaners knuckled under, among them the St. Petersburg, Fla. "pressing-club" proprietor whom Federal Judge Akerman, on a technicality, had exculpated from the charge of "chiseling" the NRA fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 11). Those big enough to have lawyers for the most part did not knuckle under. Hysterically cried one Irving Brukstone, representing Chicago...
Even under ordinary circumstances, the hours after six o'clock constitute for these persons the most convenient hours of study. But under the combined pressure of reading period work, review for examinations, and thesis work, the library, and especially the stacks have become so congested as to make it difficult for the scholar to find either place or material to study during the afternoon, thus making evening study in the library more imperative than ever...
...history of Ulysses is, in part, the history of literary censorship in the U. S. Irishman James Joyce started writing his colossal story of one Dublin day in France in 1914. In 1918 Ezra Pound sent part of it to Margaret Anderson who published it in her Little Review. The U. S. Post Office Department seized and burned all copies sent through the mails. Vice Suppressor John S. Sumner* had Margaret Anderson indicted for publishing indecent matter, caused her and her Co-Editor Jane Heap to be fined $50. Thirty thousand copies of Ulysses have been sold in France, mostly...
...have sometimes ludicrously assumed on the matter of tutoring bureau outlines, there is, to the undergraduate, nothing morally reprehensible in the practice of using notes which are not his own. Borrowed or purchased notes are regarded as a perfectly legitimate aid, not to night-before cramming, but to methodical review. The only reason why more men do not use tutoring bureau outlines is that they are so inadequate and inaccurate as to be well-nigh useless...
...Saturday Review's personal column started when Poet Louis Untermeyer returned from a trip to Sardinia with a donkey which he wanted to sell. He accepted Editor Canby's suggestion to advertise it in the Saturday Review. Editor Canby and Colyumist Morley insist that none of the advertisements is written in the office...