Word: takings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pages until 1931; thereafter I suppose "the sky will be the limit" to advertising. I am one of those who is overfed with advertising and have cancelled my subscription to a number of magazines and publications which force advertising into the reading pages and insist that the reader must take this meretricious hash, whether he wants to or not. I have already written once before protesting against what I consider an insufferable impertinence on the part of modern publishers, to whom the advertiser is the commanding force and who treat the convenience of the readers with contempt. I recognize...
Having been so eminently satisfied with TIME, I certainly will take a chance with FORTUNE, and have mailed the card enclosed with your letter...
...grandfather-father-son tradition of service in the ancient and honorable family of Tucker from Virginia. Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848) served in the 14th and 15th Congress. His chief distinction: a tirade and a vain vote in 1816 against increased pay for Congressmen which he refused to take himself. John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) served from the 44th to the 50th Congress. Henry St. George Tucker, 76, is now serving his ninth noncontinuous Congressional term since 1889. His chief distinction: a tirade and a vote in 1927 against increased pay for Congressmen which, according to family tradition...
...spite of the acknowledged improvement of the course it is still one which the sub-freshman will do well to take steps to avoid. His chances of getting one of the really good section men are not great, and it would be well if the whisper still flew about the preparatory school quadrangles that seventy-five percent in English Cp. 4 outclasses ninety-five in any other subject as far as actual value received is concerned...
...blame for the present situation seems to lie with those instructors, who, not realizing that it is often impossible for the student to take care of his assignments at once, fall to provide for the inevitable rush which occurs just before the assignment falls due. Moreover the library complains that the lists of books handed in by the instructors often arrive so late that it is impossible to get them on the shelves in time...