Word: digester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archibald Wavell reported on his recent inspection trip to Assam and Bengal, the northeastern provinces where a Japanese invasion is threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time to digest it. He spoke of retaking Burma. Wavell's optimism may have been regarded by some as a military boost to the United Nations. But there was no cause for optimism in a political situation that, unless remedied, will endanger the United Nations' dealing with Asia for years. Intervention...
...days rather than spare hours in necessary lab exercises, and with reading requirements reduced, the present six week semester insures a minimum of learning as well as of time. Telescoping of examination periods into the last few days of course work leaves the unfortunate accelerator with little chance to digest the material hurriedly crammed down his throat. Advantages in planning, in administration, and in organization are said to be attributed of the three-term year...
...current Reader's Digest Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters) presents the one-day syphilis cure as an accomplished fact, writes glibly of "immediate expansion of this chemothermic treatment." But the American Medical Association last week warned doctors and the public that the new technique was not yet beyond the experimental stage...
Under monolingual Director Gerber now work eleven listening linguists, each of whom knows at least three languages. For 19 hours a day the squad listens to both Axis and United Nations broadcasts. Each day the monitors compile a 20,000-word digest of news and propaganda slants, another 30,000 words of direct transcriptions. Carbons are turned over to the OWI, important stories are relayed to press associations by teletype, but the main purpose of the listening post is to aid CBS in its fight against Goebbels...
Schlesinger has regularly been speaking over station WRUL on the program "Digest of American Editorial Opinion." Among the courses which he has been giving is the second half of History...