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id: 53123
author: Grow, Julian F.
title: The Trouble with Truth
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words: 7894
sentence: 562
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Copies of the Northeast Region edition of the _Sun_ began pouring out of the Fotofax slot. You're right, I wouldn't use it today any more than the _Sun_ would.


id: 29953
author: Holt, Hamilton
title: Commercialism and Journalism
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words: 12649
sentence: 498
flesch: 60
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summary:
  Other papers have suffered still more, I understand, from the same factory. We need some papers that can say what ought to be said irrespective of anybody and everybody, and which can serve as examples to other papers not so fortunately circumstanced.


id: 18018
author: Belloc, Hilaire
title: The Free Press
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words: 19726
sentence: 884
flesch: 67
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summary:
  It has in the region of the great newspapers no competitor; indeed, it has no competitors at all, save that small Free Press, of which I shall speak in a moment, and which is its sole antagonist. We shall do well to separate and recognize each, because each has had it's effect upon the Free Press as a whole, and that Free Press bears the marks of all three most strongly to-day.


id: 32997
author: Detroit news
title: The Style Book of The Detroit News
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words: 29176
sentence: 1867
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Filipino_, spelling of, 51 Fine writing, 4, 14 Firm names, use of, 42 _first of series_, writing of, 55 First three years of the war, 72-74 _flag_, capitalization of, 19 Flaubert, Camille, quoted, 61 _floral offerings_, use of, 50 _flowers_, use of, 50 _follow copy_, use of phrase, 7 _foot ball_, spelling of, 51 Force, 58 _forecast_, past tense of, 31 _forecasted_, prefer _forecast_ to, 31 _foregoing statement_, use of, 56 Foreign phrases, 2, 14, 54 _former_, capitalization of, 17 _fort_, abbreviation of, 42 _forward_, spelling of, 52 _Fourth of July_, capitalization of, 18 _Fr._, use of, 48 _frisk_, misuse of, 55 _from_ misused with diseases, 37 when to omit, 37 Front page paper, 2 _funeral_, terms referring to, 50 _further_ distinguished from _farther_, 33 _future before him_, phrase to avoid, 49 G _gaiety_, spelling of, 51 _gaily_, spelling of, 51 Game, newspaper work as a, 3 _garden_, capitalization of, 18 _gat_, misuse of, 55 _gatling_, capitalization of, 20 _gentleman_, use of, 25 Geographical terms, capitalization of, 18 Girls, protection of good name of, 54 _goodby_, spelling of, 51 _government_, capitalization of, 17 _governor_, capitalization of, 17 Grace, 58 Grammar, 11 bad, not funny, 14 Grievance, treatment of reader with a, 2 _grim reaper_ to be avoided, 50 _groom_ misused for _bridegroom_, 25 _guarantee_ misused for _guaranty_, 51 _guillotine_, capitalization of, 20 _grows smaller_, misuse of, 55 _gun_, misuse of, 55 H Hackneyed phrases, 57 _hall_, capitalization of, 17 Handles, name, 45 _hang_, past tense of, 31 _hanged_, use of, 31 _happen_, use of, 30 _happening_, use of, 24 Heads, 8 _heart disease_, use of, 50 _failure_, use of, 50 _Hebrew_, rules governing use of, 46 _he or she_, avoid, 27 _healthful_, use of, 35 _healthy_, use of, 35 _Herculean_, capitalization of, 20 _high noon_, avoid, 49 _high school_, capitalization of, 19 _highway_, capitalization of, 20 Hill, Adams Sherman, quoted, 71 _Hindu_, spelling of, 51 _his or her_, avoid, 27 _hoard_ confused with _horde_, 52 _hoi polloi_, use of, without article, 49 _holidays_, capitalization of, 18 _holy names_, _places_, _events_, etc., capitalization of, 19 _home_ preferred to _residence_, 25 _homeopathic_, spelling of, 51 _horde_ confused with _hoard_, 52 _hospital_, capitalization of, 17 _hotel_, capitalization of, 17 _house_, _of representatives_, etc., capitalization of, 18 _Hull_, _Palmer_, etc., capitalization of, 17 preferred to _residence_, 25 Howells, William Dean, quoted, 14 _human_ used as adjective, 34 _hung_, use of, 31 _ Knight Templar_, plural of, 52 _Korea_, spelling of, 51 L _Labor Day_, capitalization of, 18 _lady_, use of, 25 _la grippe_, omit article with, 49 _lane_, capitalization of, 20 _late_, _the_, use of, 50 _latitude_, use figures to express, 38 Law of libel, 3, 64-71 _laws_, capitalization of, 19 _lay_, use of, 29-30 Leaders, use of, 22 Leads, 7 A. P., 15 _leaves_ preferred to _departs_, 30 _legislative bodies_, capitalization of, 18 _legislature_, capitalization, 18 _Leipzig_, spelling of, 51 _lend_ preferred to _loan_, 30 _lengthy_, prefer _long_ to, 34 _lessen_ confused with _lesson_, 52 Libel laws, 3, 64-71 _liable_ misused for _likely_, 33 Liberal, capitalization of, 18 _lie_, use of, 29-30 _lieutenant-governor_, capitalization of, 17 _like_ misused as conjunction, 28 _likely_ preferred to _liable_, 33 _live at hotel_ preferred to _stop at hotel_, 30 _lives_ preferred to _reside_, 30 _livid_, use of, 35 _loan_, prefer _lend_ to, 30 _localities_, capitalization of names of, 18 _long_ preferred to _lengthy_, 34 Longfellow, Henry W., quoted, 11 _longitude_, use figures with, 38 _long way_, spelling of, 52 _look_, use of, intransitively, 29 _lurid_, use of, 35 M _M_ in heads, 9 _macadam_, capitalization of, 20 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, quoted, 51 _maize_ confused with _maze_, 52 _majority_, meaning of, 24 _man_ preferred to _gentleman_, 25 _maneuver_, spelling of, 51 _many_ preferred to _a number of_, 34 Margins, 7 _marriage_ confused with _wedding_, 50 _master_ to be avoided, 45 _may_ in heads, 10 _mayor_, capitalization of, 17 _maze_ confused with _maize_, 52 _medieval_, spelling of, 51 _memoranda_, number of, 24 Metric system, 40-41 Metier, learning the, 6 _Mich._, use of, 43 Michigan Institutions, 59 _middle west_, capitalization of, 18 Military titles, punctuation of, 19 capitalization of, 19 abbreviation of, 44 _minister_, diplomatic, 24 of gospel, 48 _miraculous escape_, avoid use of, 56 Misspelled names, 45 _


id: 34023
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
title: The Bread Line: A Story of a Paper
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words: 38371
sentence: 2277
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Then Van Dorn, who had been acquainted with him longer than the others, spoke: What is it this time, old man? Barrifield turned his gaze on Van Dorn and laughed lazily. Van Dorn, who was slender, impulsive, and wore glasses, laughed, too, and was lost.


id: 55535
author: Courlander, Alphonse
title: Mightier than the Sword
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words: 100088
sentence: 6075
flesch: 85
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summary:
  The first ride through London, when Humphrey felt the great buildings all around him, and above him, rising enormously in a long chain that seemed to stretch for miles and miles, below the sky that was copper-tinted with the glare of thousands of lamps. Humphrey felt in his pocket for half-a-crown and slipped it into the porter's hand.


id: 15718
author: Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor
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words: 140434
sentence: 6536
flesch: 69
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title:
  How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers

summary:
  We learn simple carpentry, as part of the course, so that we shall be able to make window boxes, flats, cold frames and other articles that we need. Thus, one Sunday paper will be found to contain articles on the latest political, sociological, and literary topics, while another deals almost exclusively with society leaders, actors and actresses, and other men and women whose recent experiences or adventures have brought them into prominence.


