Word: digester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WHEN STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHERS start out to photograph the unusual and the out of the ordinary they usually turn up with results that many professionals would envy, as these examples will readily prove. Culled from the hundreds of photos received every week by the editors of COLLEGIATE DIGEST, they are just a few of the off the beaten path prints that are submitted for publication. Send your unusual prints to: COLLEGIATE DIGEST, Box 472, Madison...
...best letter of too words or less offering constructive criticism or defense of the typical collegiate motion pictures, and written by a student or faculty member of a college or university in the United States, COLLEGIATE DIGEST will award a prize of $10. The writer of the second best letter will recerve a prize of $5. Send you letter NOW to Motion Picture Editor, COLLEGIATE DIGEST SECTION, P O Box 472, Madison, Wis. Letters cannot be returned to writers...
Pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease. As laboratory animals they are therefore incapable of shedding much light on human nutrition. Rats, on the other hand, have the same eating habits as man. They need the same minerals and vitamins, fall prey to many of the same diseases. On them new serums, drugs and poisons are tried out. More experimental work has been done with the white, pink-eyed rat (Mus Norvegicus albinus) than with the meek guinea pig - more, in fact, than with all other mammals combined. If men are ever able to thrive on synthetic food...
...Literary Digest last week published a supplement to its main poll on approval of the New Deal (TIME, Jan. 6), showing that of 21,600 clergymen, 70% were opposed to it. This result tended to confirm the verdict of many an oldtime politician that President Roosevelt, because he backed Repeal, tolerated two divorces in his family, goes fishing on Sunday and rarely mentions God in public, will lose considerable support from the Church next autumn...
...public opinion. His main reliance is on polls, public & private, local & national. Little polling is done specially for him, but he ferrets out many polls of which the public never hears and adds them to his store of information. In former years the straw votes conducted by the Literary Digest and the Hearst Press were a great help to him, although he had to make statistical corrections allowing for the fact that certain groups of the voting population were not adequately represented. He has much faith in the house-to-house polls privately taken by bookmakers who place election bets...