Word: storing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain and China and a feeling that the U. S. must not soil the spirit of peace by taking even a moral stand. To add weight to the push, he quoted from James Hilton's Lost Horizon a grim passage describing what the world may have in store...
...cleaned up a cool million in Chicago's Marshall Field & Co., was Harry Gordon Self ridge, 51, when in 1909 he started Self ridge & Co. in London. By impudent American-style promotion it soon became most talked about, one of the most successful of London's department stores, now has annual sales of some $75,000,000. Among the earliest of Harry Selfridge's stunts was an advertisement in the form of an institutional editorial, run daily in the London Times over the by-line "Callisthenes" (the personal biographer of Alexander the Great). The "Callisthenes" articles caught...
...husks tied through the row of holes in the end of the paddle. This was manipulated, all day long, by a relay of stirrers of which I was one. By the time the cows came home there was a grand accumulation of spicy, mahogany-colored apple butter ready to store in stone crocks for all-winter...
...students of the arts last week were gathering for a pleasant series of conferences on the cinema. In these courses no examinations were to be given, and no marks: all the "students" had to do was sit and look. Material for the course was the rich store of reprinted films (dating from 1895) gathered for the film library of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Cinemarchivists John E. Abbott and Iris Barry (his wife). For rental of their films, the museum charged $125 for 5 series of programs, $40 for a single program. Two of the four series...
...American Revolution. He has been in the business of peddling propaganda almost since he could walk. His first work as a boy was selling newspapers. He taught school for a year after graduation from Ohio State University but dropped that to write advertising copy for a Columbus department store. Working as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he asked for the assignment to cover education, within a year shifted the city's newsorgans' attention from political squabbles to constructive achievements of the schools. This won him a job as public relations man for the Cleveland school system...