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Word: well (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although it is possible to travel well in almost any part of Europe for $10 a day, and sumptuously for $20, the Soviet authorities are abstracting $99,000 from their 99 guests for a 30-day tour of Red Russia-$33.33 per tourist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Ninety & Nine | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...duplicating his Tribune circulation success with the Patterson-McCormick New York Daily News (largest in the U. S.), Circulator Annenberg was put in charge of circulating Liberty when it was founded in 1924. Later he was given the general managership. That meant supervising the sale of white-space as well as newsstand sales. Manager Annenberg drove into the job. Than Liberty's advertising sales-methods nothing more high-powered has ever been seen in the business. But advertising men are different from newsdealers. They must be coaxed, cannot be driven. Somehow, Liberty's advertising did not keep pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Specialist Called | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...called in to build up Liberty's advertising. And the man is an oldtime Liberty counsellor, the best in the business, grey-haired James O'Shaughnessy, longtime Executive Secretary of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (Four A's), famed as a goodwill-maker as well as for his knowledge of advertising, one of the most universally popular practitioners in a highly temperamental profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Specialist Called | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Well, if I bring the 'mike' out, will you say a few words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...prying into people's hidden motives for general psychological laws. Also he is notable as a writer of varied but disconcerting style, due to the extreme length of some of his sentences. To enjoy Proust is to be impressively bookish. Accordingly, Proust is a favorite among poseurs as well as purists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Telescope | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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