Word: digest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outstandingly successful phenomenon of U. S. publishing is Reader's Digest, which was modestly launched 18 years ago-with the idea of reprinting condensations of worthwhile articles-and today has a circulation of 3,200,000 copies. With no advertising but with a simple format and a substantial price (25? a copy) it became a highly profitable enterprise in the hands of its editor-owners DeWitt and Lila Bell Acheson Wallace...
...Several months ago, a Londoner named J. R. B. Branson wrote to the Times, suggesting that it would be a good idea for Britishers to learn to eat fresh green grass. Mr. Walter Elliott, the British Minister of Health, was not amused. The human stomach, said he stiffly, cannot digest grass...
...Rearmament. Fact was that for the Army-which needed and got most of the emergency funds-it was only partial rearmament and on a 1938 scale. If the U. S. thought it could arm itself against these times at such small cost, or that its present military establishment could digest even such comparatively small sums, it still had another illusion to meet and overcome. Aircraft excepted, about all the Franklin Roosevelt's initial estimates could do was provide what the Army thought it needed before Hitler's mechanized hordes changed the modern definition...
...pessimistic Secretary of the Interior greatly impressed him. His reaction to the catastrophe seemed to be partly based upon his greatest fear: "that something will happen to make him financially insecure." During that evening he lost five pounds, and during the next few days was unable to digest his food...
...chance to impress the surgeon with the fact that she had just been on ... 'a walnut fudge bust' "; a man "who had just had a violent argument with his wife"; several school teachers who "were worn out with fatigue"; a young woman who couldn't digest onions; "one girl who had simply vomited her dinner...