Word: supplemented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Richard F. Outcault, 65, famed comic supplement artist (Buster Brown), who drew Hogan's Alley, the first full-page colored comic strip ever published (New York World, 1895); after a long illness; in Flushing...
...American Weekly is the Sunday supplement of the 28 Hearst newspapers. Advertisers are invited to regard it as a sort of magazine. It has a circulation of 25,000,000 (Saturday Evening Post has less than 3,000,000). Its advertising rate is $16,000 per page. Its contents are entirely lurid: huge pictures and meaningless text about the scandals of Europe's lesser nobility, dinosaurs, spooks, freaks of science, etc. Eleven years ago, Publisher Hearst, despairing of selling advertising in such a thing, offered to give one Albert J. Kobler a big commission for every advertisement sold. From...
...customary four hour examinations upon which the entire year's work at the Law School depends, are apparently regarded as insufficient test to qualify students for promotion. A new and more stringent means of testing the student's calibre has been devised to supplement the nervous and mental strain of the present system, namely, the requirement that student work under fire--or more literally, in the immediate presence of a roaring steamshovel. Uninterruptedly, save for one-half hour at noon, it puffs and snorts and hisses forty feet from the open windows. No longer, aparently, can one get through...
...American colleges have made use of them to study at Oxford. Now these alumni of the great English university are planning to show their appreciation by raising an endowment fund to be used by it for building and research purposes or, if it prove necessary in later years, to supplement the original Rhodes Fund...
...newspaper of the preparatory school can be expected to follow the path of the college paper in external and internal development will be determined by the single leash of time. It is doubtful, for instance, if the secondary school journalist would be wise in taking a book supplement upon his hands. The checkrein is tightening on extra-curricular activity all through the educational system and what is possible to the divided interests of a large college staff may be less feasible where the burden is less distributed...