Word: digestants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four-Pound Digest...
...connection with the article on the Reader's Digest in your issue of Nov. 2, it might be of news interest to your readers to know that a complete issue of that periodical is published simultaneously in Braille by the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville. There is very slight resemblance in format as the greater bulk necessitated by the embossed letters results in three volumes, each 13½ in. by 11 in. and over an inch thick, instead of the pocket-size edition for those who can see. Originally each issue was incorporated in one volume...
Fifty-five years of Harvard-Yale football, even without mentioning games west of the Hudson, have consistently fooled the "Saturday morning quarterback" and his comparative paper scores. And this in a manner equaled only by The Literary Digest...
...future, the Digest asked its readers: "Should the Democratic Party have quit in 1924 . . . instead of going on to the greatest triumph in its history? Should the University of Minnesota . . . give up [football] because it finally lost one game?" On the question of a change in polling methods, the Digest hedged: "We'll cross that bridge when we come...
Lest Franklin Roosevelt feel that the magazine had attempted to slug him with a "weighted" poll, the Digest heartily added that it hailed "a magnificent President against whom it never uttered one word of partisan criticism. . . . The Digest does not editorialize...