Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forth last week by two students of Russian and Chinese affairs-Max Eastman, onetime Communist editor, and J. B. Powell, former editor of Shanghai's liberal China Press, who lost part of both feet as a result of mistreatment in a Japanese prison camp. In Reader's Digest they wrote...
Everything that medical skill could give them they received. They were first washed in sitdown bathtubs and then, clean and in fresh clothes, they were put to bed in sunlit rooms with flowers. Whole blood was transfused into the emaciated bodies, nourishment was injected intravenously when they could not digest strengthening soups. But more than anything else, the simple fact of humane care and decent surroundings had its effect. In the first two days after the 120th moved in, only two men died...
...great quantities of salt are required to digest "Enchanted Cottage's" elfin consomme, for it is subtly spiced with acting that is something distinct from the sleep-walking with which most productions are content...
...fall, the angler's luck improves as the surviving little fish grow larger and harder for the big fish to catch. By winter, the fishing should be even better. But with cold weather, a fishes digestion slows down; it takes 350 hours to digest the same minnow it would digest in several summer hours...
...Army and Navy, Editions for the Armed Services has turned out, under the management of Philip Van Doren Stern, over 40 million copies of 500 books. To fit existing presses as well as G.I. pockets, the books are made in two sizes: half that of a standard digest-size magazine, and half that of a pulp magazine. Bound like pocket bird guides, they are printed in double columns of clear type, weigh only two to four ounces...