Word: digester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrestlers-who, in the gruff MacLane lingo, are nothing but a lot of humpty dumpties. What dates The Kid Comes Back even more surely than its two-year-old automobile models is the anachronistic quip: "This time I'm right. . . ." "Oh yeah! So was the Literary Digest...
...most efficient readers, the favorite type of magazine is news comment; of the least efficient, pulps. Leading five magazines read by the 100 ablest readers in Professor Buswell's study were, in order of preference: Reader's Digest, TIME, Saturday Evening Post, American Magazine, Good Housekeeping. Most frequently read by the 100 poorest readers: True Story Magazine, Detective Story Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Liberty, Saturday Evening Post...
...Virginia D. Virgin has charge of the campaign to suppress venereal diseases in West Virginia. Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter has similar charge in Pennsylvania. In Illinois the executive is Dr. John McShane. Eighteen months ago these jobs were obscure ones. Then, with an article in Reader's Digest, Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service opened a campaign to cure the 6,500,000 syphilitics in the U. S., prevent a new crop of 500,000 cases developing each year. First he was obliged to destroy national taboo against discussing venereal disease publicly...
...Eurich & E. C. Wilson -Holt ($2.50). Concise, authoritative, 523-page digest of 1937-8 complex world news-in politics, government, crime, science, religion, art, literature, cinema-by the Test-Makers of TIME. Illustrated...
...prove his claim, Stuart Chase gives a digest of semantic authorities and then shows how meaningless in the light of their studies are some passages from 'such pundits as Plato, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, President Roosevelt, Walter Lippmann, Henry Ford. He even damns an excerpt from his own writings. As his only ''operational test" he asked 100 people, ranging from schoolboys to Senators, what "fascism" meant to them. They all disliked it, but they had 15 different concepts of what they disliked, including that of a housewife who thought it was "a Florida rattlesnake." Popular ideas...