Word: digest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course best outlined by Van Fleet himself in the February Readers' Digest. "The lesson for us," he wrote, "is that free Asia may easily be saved if we provide our worthy allies with [U.S.-run military training] schools. They can be built for barely $5,000,000 each and, with the aid of less than two dozen American instructors . . . give courses lasting from four to 24 weeks to 10,000 eager pupils...
...Dilletantes as well as concentrators should enjoy the History of England, history 142b, covering the period from 1815 to the present. A rarity in the history department, it coats and hare facts with an analytic approach, David E. Owen's suave wit makes the saver 11 lectures easy to digest...
...after their normal successes have been forgotten. Their trouble is that in trying to avoid failures they have run up against an obstacle created by themselves. The observation methods of modern meteorology pull so many figures out of the air that no human brain or combination of brains can digest them all in time to make a fully considered forecast...
...Numerical Weather Prediction Unit" with a staff of 30 to serve the machine. It has high confidence that the method will be in practical use by next fall. But to prove its effectiveness, the bureau plans to give it a really hard test. Its first job will be to digest the weather information that was available just before last Nov. 6, when the bureau predicted fair weather for the U.S. Northeast-and a howling blizzard blew in off the sea. If the machine predicts correctly the unexpected wind-shift that made monkeys out of the weathermen, it will...
...Digest as it is will not win many votes for the Democratic party. Besides its sophistication, which automatically limits its audience, its content is just too slanted. Reading it is like sitting through a three-hour campaign rally. I have a suspicion almost all its readers are Democrats to start with. But as a monthly dose of propaganda, it will keep the faithful happy, their barrels fully loaded for any Republican who happens within earshot...