Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year, the average over a similar period reached approximately 2300, or 650 above last year's mark...
...editors believed, and rightly, as events proved--that the suggestion of censorship or suppression would increase their sales. Accordingly the paper was printed with one corner perfectly blank and with a similar blank space taking up about one-third of the editorial column. These blanks were then painstakingly cut out by members of the staff and it was whispered that I had suppressed an offensive story and editorial. The paper "sold like wildfire" and its appearance was followed by visits to the printer in search of the missing portions, offers of high prices for "unexpurgated" copies--as much...
...this "suppression" had not been a hoax to increase circulation, if there had really been a suppressed story to serve as its background, the results would undoubtedly have been similar but vastly greater in degree. The curiosity for readers would have had something substantial to feed upon and suppression would have defeated its own purposes, as I believe it usually does...
...Osgood, of Princeton, J. Q. Adams, of Cornell, and A. K. Potter, of Brown, arranged the names of the twenty Crimson and Blue contestants in order of the excellence of their papers, and the points were scored by adding the number of places on the list. As in the similar scoring of a cross country meet, the team with the lowest total wins...
...more fertile lands, Hrvd No. 12.029 is, without doubt one of the very best varsities ever produced, regarding both field tonnage and percentage of sucrose in the juice. The average yield of cane per caballeria is at least 15 percent greater than that of Cristalina, growing under similar agronomic conditions, and, as it is a more persistent grower, the fields do not need replanting so frequently. The cane stalks are solid and of greater weight than Cristalina. A sample of 22 carloads of this cane averaged 239 arrobas per car heavier than an equal number of Cristalina. (Cristalina usually weighs...