Word: digester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saving the country as much as a million dollars a day. The present immigration law he heartily praised on the ground that at last the country was securing a higher degree of selection in the immigration and was only getting such a number of immigrants as it could easily digest...
...opening chapter he places the Europe of 1815 in juxtaposition with the Europe of 1919, and compares the aims of the Allies of 1815 with those of the Allies of 1919. In short the chapter is a comparative digest of the history of the two periods...
Said Thomas A. Edison: " I wish that the newspapers would print more of the kind of thing you see in The Literary Digest. That has been a great success. It has no scandal." This vexed The Daily News, New York: " Newspapers print the news. That's why they're called newspapers. That part of the news happens to be scandalous is the fault of the people who make it, not the fault of the newspapers." Readers of the San Francisco Chronicle get fun. No sooner had that journal completed a solve-the- mystery-detective-story Prize Contest than...
...Cathedral" is not a "modern" novel in the sensuous way that that term is so often used, but it is a novel that every thinking man should read, and digest. It is a book to make men think--a quality rare enough in the novels of today...
...Philippines are not yet ready to maintain a government without the support of the United States, and it is better for them to wait until they can thoroughly digest the powers now in their hands. The pledge of the United States to the world is that it will set up a staple government in the Philippines. If we backed out now, we should not have fulfilled our pledge...