Word: asterisked
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Maybe an old time cover-to-cover reader will tell a comparatively recent newsstand convert what to do on meeting an asterisk...
...common practice to read all of the footnotes first? Or do you find it better to read the article through to the end and then to pick up the footnote the asterisk or dagger refers...
...these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks to indicate the comparative importance of the objects in an art collection ? Your "famed" and Baedecker's asterisks are simply highly condensed symbols for indicating relationships which could not be otherwise indicated without many wasted words. Those readers who know without being told the relative importance of everything...
Your issue of Apr. 20, Page 2, third column, asterisk note, the phrase "watered stock" evolved from the practice of this trick by the brother of the original J. J. Astor, not Jim Fisk, as you mention...
...asterisk after the number of the course indicates that undergraduates must receive the consent or recommendation of the instructor in order to elect...