Word: unsold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor E. A. Milne, of Oxford University, spent several weeks at the Harvard Observatory, delivering two lectures and holding many conferences with the staff on subjects of theoretical astrophysics. Dr. Albrecht Unsold, of the University of Munich, spent some weeks at the Harvard Observatory, holding special conferences on line contours and in photometric studies, using Harvard photographs of the structure and distance of the Coal Sack in the southern Milky...
...reading public it doubtless seemed a fine and thoughtful Federal service. But the publishers of national magazines were sore vexed when lately, they found out what was going on. Any thriving magazine has a constant demand for back numbers. Thrifty, self-respecting publishers are at pains to recover all unsold or undelivered copies. The National Publishers Association registered a sharp protest with Postmaster-General Brown, who referred the matter to slender Arch Coleman, his First Assistant. Publishers were particularly agitated by the possibility that the Post Office was offering sales competition to authorized sales agents if. as the Kansas City...
...printed about 20,000 copies of his first issue. Half of them came back unsold. The Sunday circulation of the Times last week was 752,689. It is unquestionably the greatest U. S. newspaper, with special emphasis on the "news." Perhaps it is the world's greatest...
After hearing the appeal, Sir Thomas Inskip ruled, in effect, that British police shall pounce upon, confiscate and destroy all unsold copies of The Well of Loneliness. Said Sir Thomas, hotly, to reporters: "I consider this the most subtle, demoralizing, corrosive and corruptive book ever written...
...first glance Britannia appeared in escapably destined to rule in potency. But canny folk noted that the second number of Britannia appeared with only 13 paid-for pages and with the front and back in side covers unsold...