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Word: sales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point out my mistake. He explained, as nearly as I can remember (the gentleman must pardon me if I misquote him) that the Lampoon was not intended to be funny, or generally intelligible, or anything like that. It was not to be considered as a commercial publication. Its sale was merely a traditional joke perpetrated by a select club at regular intervals. The persons at whose expense the joke was sold were not supposed to see it. In fact the search of such persons (at this point my critic pointed out delicately that I was one of them) who looked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CODE DOES NOT TAKE LAMPOON SERIOUSLY | 10/18/1924 | See Source »

...graduate and undergraduate applications have been attended to, and a public sale began yesterday. Today tickets will be on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's, and also at Iver Johnson's, Wright & Ditson's, Horace Partridge's, and Herrick's in Boston. Judging from indications a crowd of well over 50,000 should fill the Stadium Saturday, in which case an early season record will be established...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEXT TWO GAMES DRAW HUGE CROWDS | 10/14/1924 | See Source »

...real estate world is debating whether we have sufficient construction. Permits have generally fallen off. Landlords have generally tried to maintain high rents. On the other hand, "To Let" and "For Sale" signs appear almost everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Uncertainty | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...effort will be made to increase the sale of the Register, especially outside the University. Harvard Alumni Clubs and Libraries all over the country will be solicited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGISTER TO BE ISSUED BEFORE DECEMBER FIRST | 10/7/1924 | See Source »

...Constitution, in that section of it known as the 18th Amendment, forbids the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors in "the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof." This includes the Philippines. The Volstead Act, which defines intoxicating liquors and under which alone can violators of the Amendment be persecuted and sent to jail, does not apply to the Philippines. It does not apply to the Philippines because they are not specifically included in the Act; and the law (the "organic law" or Constitution), given by Congress to the Philippines when they were acquired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Nice Point | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

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