Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from that of the 1920's. Reared to respectability by the automobile, the installment plan before Depression had spread to refrigerators, pianos, radios, oil burners and similar relatively durable goods. It had always been possible to buy a diamond solitaire, or a suite of overstuffed furniture or an encyclopedia on a deferred payment plan, but installment selling as a major factor in U. S. economics developed after the War. Even in those exciting days a substantial down payment was required and terms for the balance seldom exceeded twelve months. Moreover, the goods covered by the contract were supposed...
...three .... "The Outbreak of the War." That's funny, it didn't give the causes. Here it says the President was assassinated, and the paragraph hasn't been marked. Oh God! No wonder, that fool only marked the first chapter! Well, I'll look it all up in the Encyclopedia...
...CONQUEST OF POWER (2 Vols.)-Albert Weisbord-Covici-Friede ($7.50). Ambitiously attempted 1,208-page encyclopedia tracing the rise and decline of Liberalism, Anarchism, Syndicalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism; by a onetime U. S. Communist...
...having two firms and two lines of books they can sell to competing publishers in a single city. Standard features a cheap encyclopedia. Into this they obligingly insert anything the buyer wishes to have appear. Thus the Philadelphia Inquirer is selling 200,000 volumes a week of the Standard American Encyclopedia whose A volume has a complimentary column-and-one-half biography of Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg. Hearst's New York Journal, selling the same encyclopedia, has in its volumes no word of Mr. Annenberg or his career, but it has got a nice item devoted...
Presenting the most accurate and complete data yet available for this region, the new "encyclopedia" is expected to be of use to weather scientists in their predictions and in research on origins of various climatic phenomena. Prepared largely by Charles F. Brooks '11, director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, the survey has been published as part of a massive German handbook of climatology which upon completion will present the important weather facts of the whole world...