Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each morning Dr. Thorndike spends exactly eight minutes reading the newspaper, each night reads himself to sleep with Punch, a detective story or the encyclopedia. An exceedingly rapid reader, he has read through both the Britannica and the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...
Reader was Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black. The case involved the right of the Federal Trade Commission to prevent Standard Education Society from advertising, as a free gift for subscribers to its $69.50 loose-leaf supplement service, an encyclopedia which the F. T. C. had found normally sold at $69.50 with no charge for the supplement. In his opinion, in which all of his eight colleagues concurred, Justice Black ruled for the Commission, gave an outline of his reasoning...
...value of the books, described as little more than an ordinary encyclopedia, which the man thus sold, is estimated at several thousand dollars...
...Photo-Facts Publisher Fawcett offers little advice, much fact illustrated in encyclopedia fashion. "Jumping at conclusions," says Mr. Fawcett's "pocketbook of knowledge," "is all right if you have a solid base from which to jump. . . . Photo-Facts supplies a good firm groundwork of useful information from which to 'jump' accurately." Photo-Facts considered useful such stories as "White Man Westward" (Lewis & Clark), "Termite Menace," "Poe's Great Balloon Hoax," "Football From Pagan Rites." Added fillip was its "Newsstand University" section in which Dale Carnegie again bobbed up, this time with "Putting Yourself Across": typical Carnegie...
Information has been received from several sources that subscriptions to an encyclopedia have been solicited by a man claiming, first that Harvard University is financially interested in the publication in question, and, second, that he has had some connection with the Harvard Faculty. Both those claims are false...