Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...utility expert") prepared a table of the percentage content of the newspapers of 25 years ago. He based his figures on the examination of 9,000 columns of reading matter in 110 newspapers from 14 cities. His results: War news 17.9% Foriegn 1.2 Politics 6.4 Crime 3.1 Business 8.2 Sport 5.1 Society 2.3 Miscellaneous 11.1 All News 55.3 Editorials 3.9 Letters 3.2 All Opinion 7.1 Illustrations 3.1 Literature 2.4 Advertisements 32.1 The Newspapers of 1899 100% One Paul W. White then made a corresponding analysis of present-day journals for Editor and Publisher. He examined 19,200 columns of mattter...
...percentages after being all set out seem to prove very little except the obvious. Advertising has increased. Radio has made its appearance. Sport has picked up. But in general the analysis fails to prove anything. It is only by getting at the figures of the actual quantity of news retailed that changes are really apparent...
...foreign news; a round half added to the volume of political news (this must be discounted since this is a Presidential year) ; about two and half times as much crime news; about one and a half times as much business news; about two and a third times as much sport news. The only kind of news which actually fell off in volume was society news, which was cut almost in half...
Pretty frocks and dashing sport clothes all wrapped up in raincoats...
...Premier; 2) to win the Derby. With the first he has not yet finished; with the second "his cares are now all ended." The day was wet and forbidding. Great crowds of hundreds of thousands of people found their way to Epsom Downs. But pretty frocks and dashing sport clothes, so important to Derby Days, were all wrapped up in raincoats, and the only splash of color was that supplied by the gypsies. As the field of 27 faced the barrier, the good-natured crowd "downed umbrellas" in order that all might see the getaway. "They're off!" shouted...