Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...satisfied with this gossamer explanation, I asked to be shown in black and white just how TIME was inferior to The Literary Digest, a magazine to which the Library can afford to subscribe. The Digest, I argued, merely showed scissors whereas TIME showed a much finer pair of shears. Her reply here was that TIME was "a smart-alecky and a funny magazine-something like Ballyhoo...
...newspapers found two likely ones. Of late. Editor Smith, always proud of his Democratic regularity, has been growing more friendly toward the Roosevelt Administration. He sympathized with the President in the uproar over airmail contracts. Publisher Tichenor. in addition to New Outlook, owns Spur, Sportsman Pilot. Port and Aero Digest. March number of Aero Digest contains a sizzling column by Publisher Tichenor in his ''Air-Hot and Otherwise'' department which flays the Administration's cancellation of contracts. The April issue of New Outlook will have a similar article. Another difference of opinion between Editor Smith...
Once again TIME breaks forth with an innovation that improves an already superb newsmagazine. I refer to the 20 questions published for us in the current issue, Jan. 22. Not comparable to ''lecture notes," they nevertheless provide a fine minute test of one's ability to digest the concise news of the week...
...editors and columnists. President Wilfred John Funk of Funk & Wagnalls, who writes light verse, publishes the Literary Digest and gets out a dictionary, last week tossed an exciting subject for controversy. He made up a list of the "ten modern Americans who have done most to keep American jargon alive...
...Thanksgiving Eve "Poor Devil" was idling through the Sept. 23 issue of The Literacy Digest. On p. 8 was a news photograph which made him suddenly shout, "That's me! That...