Word: page
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about your new advertisement policy in a recent issue, I was cheered to learn that TIME'S management, more courageous than most publishers, had decided to limit the amount of advertising matter. As I recall it, you said you would in the future restrict the newsmagazine to 80 pages. You can imagine what I thought of your courage when I opened the Oct. 7 issue and found the last page numbered 84. Have you . . . "weaseled...
...Sept. 16 issue, TIME published the following: "Until the end of 1930, no issue of TIME will exceed 80 pages plus cover and color inserts." The Oct. 7 issue, numbering 84 pages, included a four-page color insert...
When Walter Hines Page was ambassador to the Court of St. James's, he told President Wilson, in recommending his then secretary for ministerhood: "I depend on him [Laughlin] more than all the rest of my staff together. I can hardly imagine a more careful or conscientious man." While Secretary of Commerce, President Hoover was impressed by Laughlin's ability when, as minister at Athens, he aided U. S. corporations in securing a munificent contract for waterworks construction. A man of affairs with long foreign experience, he precisely fits the Hoover pattern for diplomats...
...newspapers are an important factor in the prevailing misrepressentation of college and especially university existence. There seems to be a malge in the word "college" which puts the most trivial incident upon the front page." Unimportant happenings and silly pranks which-pass the unnoticed in a college town are seized upon and played by the newspapers. Almost up played by the newspapers. Almost invariably they are things which will add to the current impression fostered by the press...
...volumes being shown is the "Story of King Arthur and the Round Table", printed by William Copland in 1557. There is only one other complete copy of this book in existence; and that rests now in the British Museum. Printed first in ordinary black and white, the front page of each copy of the work was then illuminated in brilliant colors by hand...