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...original investment; that Mr. Foster was the sole owner of this thriving concern, which manufactured three-quarters of the world's automobile snubbers and shock-absorbing devices. But even Wall Street, which hears many strange things without a metaphorical flicker of its eyes, opened them wide in astonishment last week...
...Wide-eyed Wall Street...
...Advocate has been notified by the Postmaster at Cambridge that the current issue has been declared unmailable. Whether this ban will be nation-wide or not is being determined by the Sollcitor of the Post Office Department at Washington. A copy of the suppressed magazine has been forwarded to him, and he will render his decision at the end of the week, it was announced...
...same government which protects the liberties of its citizens must define the boundaries within which that liberty may be exercised. But hypocrisy and cant must not be allowed to dictate those boundaries. The field of human freedom must be kept as wide as possible, and the arbitrary definition of moral standards by insincere and prurient politicians is an infringement upon that field of free activity. On Friday the final decision will be made by the postal authorities, to readmit or bar the Dial parody. To disqualify the Advocate would be not less a slander upon its public and the University...
...International Dictionary, 1920. Also usage by 1,500 radio announcers in the U. S. and Great Britain and a dozen magazines representing the current radio art. The verb form was adapted 15 years ago by the U. S. Navy when a word was needed to denote wide dissemination of radio information to ships...