Word: digestibility
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...having opened the Red Sea (about a two-month voyage from New York) to its shipping, having committed itself a step further in the Battle of the Atlantic by turning over ten anti-rumrunning cutters, having attached Greenland to its sphere of defense (see p. 23), might digest well: "It is," said the Prime Minister, "of course very hazardous to try to forecast in what direction or directions Hitler will employ his military machine in the present year. ..." Winston Churchill paused. He was pale and tired-looking, and his delivery this day was strangely halting; but his words were measured...
...forces, in the Albanian mountains with the Greeks. He had inspected ordnance, shipping, signal corps, maintenance depots. He had slept in sleeping bags, on desert sands, on the jogging backs of mules. He had talked to kings, prime ministers, generals, admirals. As a lawyer he was well equipped to digest what he heard. As a soldier (he commanded New York's "Fighting 69th" Regiment in World War I, won the Congressional Medal of Honor, the D.S.C. and D.S.M.) he was well equipped to put together what he saw. As a reporter he was a natural. But no newspaper...
...just another way of describing the Machine Age, and the fact is certainly nothing new or startling. Sociology courses should set up certain agreed-on hypotheses, and then proceed to feed them to students in the form of practical problems. If the theories can be applies, the student will digest them; if not, they're not worth digesting anyway...
...think it almost providentially apt that Philip Horton, in a book review in this same issue of the Advocate, criticizes a number of young American poets for their "lack of authentic passion and real thought, the failure either to present the material in its full immediacy or to digest in some degree its significance...
...started Commentator four years ago. In November 1939, he absorbed defunct Scribner's, and about that time he hired as an assistant editor a modest, handsome young Westerner, George Eggleston, who had worked on the late College Humor, the old Life and the late Listener's Digest...