Word: digester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Symphony was not to be outdone by its big brothers. Under the leadership of genial, bearded. George Barrere, it also said good-bye until Autumn. Its recessional, trundled out by the witty remarks of George, featured George's own Symphonic Digest, a "condensation of the great city's symphony life, written for the convenience of those who find it inconvenient to attend the orchestra concerts of a week in the music season." How many such must there be! The work comprised 14 quotations from Beethoven, seven from Tschaikowski, three each from Dvorak and Brahms, two each from Schubert...
...votes on the ten best books published since 1900 were polied by the Literary Digest International Book Review, and lo! the name of Wells led all the rest. Not only did his "Outline of History" receive more votes than any other book, but he stood first among the ten favorite authors. His "Outline of History" and sixteen of his other books put him at the top of the list for popularity...
...Dewey's book. He based his study upon 100,000 words of connected matter gathered from newspapers all over the country, from modern fiction, modern American speeches, business and personal correspondence, religious English, popular scientific English, modern special articles, magazine editorial English, the Saturday Evening Post and the Literary Digest. It appears from Mr. Dewey's tabulations that the word "the" is the most frequently used word in the language, there being 7,310 instances of its use in the investigated material. "Of" ranks second with 3,998 examples, while "and" with 3,280 instances is a close third. "Worry...
...sharp cross-section of the Carolina Mountains trying to digest the late...
Freshmen who wish to join the discussion, which will follow the four speeches, will find the material in the "Nation" for January 9 and the Literary Digest for January...