Word: digester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading of it. I am amused occasionally at some of the criticisms of other subscribers- the most amusing being those by someone whose ox has apparently been gored. I do not recall any weekly magazine, or monthly, either, for that matter, which has ever given so good a digest of current news, except, in a measure, The Independent, a number of years ago when it ran a weekly department of about eight pages in which it digested the week's news, but even it was not so good as TIME because it contained no expression of editorial opinion...
...thing that Mr. Paine could understand least in the habits of some of the new writers was their ability to put things together in such a slapdash fashion. For him, it is necessary to gather material, to digest it, to think about the finished product as a whole. To write a biography is the work of several years, not of a few weeks. He works in the mornings, or walks, or plays pool with the Editor of St. Nicholas: he considers pool his exercise. His reading is done before he sleeps at night and early in the morning. Driving...
...headed paragraphs, gives amazingly well a poignant outline of his life. The observations are keen, the style pleasing, the treatment intelligent. Considering its scope and the fact that it is written from a semimilitary standpoint, the book is an excellent piece of work, easy to lead, easy to digest...
...chapel is now complete except for interior decorations which are being worked on at present. I am enclosing the two pictures of the structure which were published last week in the Musical Digest...
...believing them. Last week, their contentions were upheld by an English scientist, one Elizabeth S. Semmens. Working under the auspices of the Bedford College for Women, London, she proved that the growth of plants was nourished by moonshine, which is no more than polarized light, a stimulant to the digest of starch. Light consists of vibrations across the line of sight-vibrations up and down, right and left, and all the angles in between. Polarized light is light that has acquired, by reflection, a single group of positive and negative vibrations-vibrations that have motion to and fro in only...