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Word: digest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...establishment of "watch dogs" over the public interest in an unshackled press. "World Government, But First One World," by Stephen M. Schwebel, strikes out at federalist perfectionists who "take legal symbols for social realities." "The Coming Economic Crisis in America," by George Goldstein, appears to be a digest of an honors thesis and is consequently well backed up by statistics. It suffers only slightly from the dry jargon of academic economics. He sets up the proposition that within the next two years the American economy will face a serious set-back, thanks to the lack of profitable investment outlets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 3/11/1947 | See Source »

Reader's Digest was the first U.S. magazine to be printed in Britain after the wartime blackout. Last week the second one popped up in London bookstores. Unlike the Digest (circ. 11 million), the second U.S. entry-Partisan Review-is a highbrow magazine almost as unfamiliar to most Americans as it is to Britons. But it quickly sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Light Up in London | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Newsletter, a two-page mimeographed bi-weekly, went for the first time through the mails to 766 AVC members Monday morning. It is edited by Frank L. Haley '45 and Andrew E. Rice '43 1G, and attempts to digest and assimilate news and information on AVC activities past and future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC Issues New Paper, Endorses Stand by Conant | 3/7/1947 | See Source »

...some places students studied carefully the digest of the provisions listed on the ballot, and in Dunster more than 30 men consulted the Constitution itself. Dunster was also high among the Houses in total ballots cast with a husky 274, which was surpassed only by the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Days' Balloting Fails to Ratify New Constitution as Only 2400 Vote | 2/8/1947 | See Source »

...connections with the University. Deserving as they undoubtedly were, their merits were largely intramural and might have been recognized in a less ostentatious manner. Of the remaining three, the more recent works of one, at least, could hardly earn him a greater reputation than that of a Reader's Digest hack writer, leading the observer of such academic proceedings to wonder how much serious consideration is given prospective candidates for honorary degrees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Them That Has, Gits" | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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