Word: digester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Police Departments of Boston and Cambridge joined action yesterday and suppressed the Literary Digest issue of the Lampoon on the grounds of obscenity and desecration of the flag...
Aged 37 years, Current Opinion- monthly organ of tinted photogravure, news smatterings, topical literature- agreed to being absorbed by The Literary Digest. Publisher William H. Wise of Current Opinion gave out, as reasons, the magazine's diminished volume of advertising and his own desire to concentrate on his book-subscription business. Publisher W. J. Funk of the Digest gave out, as plans, that Current Opinion would cease functioning "very shortly," that its name would probably be incorporated with the Digest's, as was that of Public Opinion some years ago. Rumor put the price at $250,000. Thus...
...part, I should prefer access to all the books I could and would digest and a satisfactory adviser whom I might visit at great intervals. That is about all the education I ever had, anyway...
...industry and mental alertness. This hypothesis would seem to be supported by the theory of an English scientist, who says that sixteen years is the age at which a man reaches his maximum intelligence: after that he may sow study, reap facts, thresh theories, feed on observation, and digest experience; but he will never possess a sharper mental instrument than at the end of his boyhood...
...Brief digest of the Sanger mass-meeting at the Liberal Club...