Word: almanacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Washington's first administration was drawing to a close. Late in that year a 26-year-old Massachusetts bookseller & stationer named Robert Bailey Thomas brought out the first edition of The Old Farmer's Almanac. It was an immediate success. It is a success today-the oldest almanac...
...sometimes known as Only-Game-Fish-Swim-Upstream. Celebrated are his ribaldries. On winter nights he has announced that the cold has compelled Ripley to take the brass monkey inside, occasionally instructs actors who happen in on his show to recite "anything from Shakespeare to Dr. Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly munched razor blades during her interview, a ladies' sportswear manufacturer, who described how he would paint Bach's music, many a trull, tramp and taxi driver. Fond of kidding Major Bowes...
...stated that New York U. is the sixth largest university in the country, having an enrollment of 12,745. New York University, in its July 30, 1938 bulletin, claims to have a net enrollment, for the entire university, of 47,771. The 1940 World Almanac claims that it is the largest university in the U. S., with a total enrollment...