Word: serialization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bernarr Macfadden (then Kinistherapist Bernard Adolphus McFadden) invented a massaging device. To advertise it he brought out a 5? pamphlet consisting principally of a serial called "The Athlete's Conquest" with cover illustrations of "Professor B. McFadden in Classical Poses." The pamphlet far outsold the massager, became the Professor's chief interest as Physical Culture magazine...
...piano salesman, law clerk, professional magician before hitting his stride as a novelist and play wright. (Plays: The Spider, Behold This Dreamer. Books: Sandalwood, Stepchild of the Moon.) Few years ago he attached himself to Publisher Macfadden, wrote The True Story of Bernarr Macfadden as a serial in Physical Culture...
...Book and to Hearst's Cosmopolitan. At arm's length the cover design looks, even to Artist Bradshaw Crandell's signature, exactly like the work of Red Book's Artist McClelland Barclay. The contents include the final instalment of Warwick Deeping's serial The Ten Commandments; articles by Will Durant and the Grand Duchess Marie; stories by Grace Perkins (Night Nurse), Harold Bell Wright...
...choke off the expected rush of buyers. If it seems to choke too hard, the State will prevent strangulation by lowering prices. German banks, who do a little bootleg business in rubles,* reported last year that they were getting batches of Soviet banknotes all bearing the same serial number. Naturally the holder of U. S. Treasury silver certificate number M71525894A entitling him to one silver dollar, hopes that nobody else has a bill of the same number entitling them to his dollar-for that is what such duplication would amount to. German banks have denounced the Soviet Treasury for "counterfeiting...
...pass through a bastard version of the west portal of an abbey. Continue down the main hall, which is a precise copy of a nave with five bays. Observe the massive and unnecessary piers, the inconvenient but orthodox side aisles, the lofty transepts bristling with sanctity above and serial catalogues below. Advance to the high altar-a $25,000 book delivery desk; overhead, admire the rood screen, of utmost complexity and facility at catching dust, which has been cleverly placed to hide the important library clock from view. See the space where the great apse painting...