Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London for a "holiday" was Foreign Editor Nicolas Blaedel of Copenhagen's famed old Berlingske Tidende, who incurred Adolf Hitler's wrath by reprinting a description of German atrocities from a speech by an English M.P. Next day the paper offered humble apologies for printing an "absolutely incredible" story, sent Blaedel on a long vacation...
...more than six years in an isolated house crammed with books and files. There, working from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., day after day, intrepid Lexicographer Scholes laboriously wrote out the whole of his million-word book. When he had finished, he had covered 132 acres of paper weighing ten tons. Scholarly Scholes's one-man Companion had one ingredient that made it unique among music dictionaries: charm. Only half the size of the two U. S. dictionaries, it is a masterpiece of condensation and cross-referencing, is beautifully illustrated...
...George Parmly Day, the treasurer of Yale, expects to pay part of the university's expenses from unexpected legacies. He was therefore both surprised and not surprised when he picked up his paper one morning last week and learned that a rich old gentleman who had never shown any interest in the university's management and who had not been in New Haven in six years had left Yale some...
...Watt Paper...
...paper sent by Robert J. Watt, American Workers' Delegate to the International Labor Organization, reduced the problem of an overcomplex government to a need for a change in ethics...