Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor. Important magazine articles are also numerous. The general subject is discussed abroad under the heading of "Rationalization," and a report on the "Social Aspects of Rationalization" published by the International Labor Office at Geneva in 1931, will serve as an introduction to the foreign field. The best general digest of material published in this country may be found in an article in the Monthly Labor Review published by the U. S. Department of Labor in November 1932 on "Technological Changes, Productivity of Labor and Labor Displacement...
...height, and I am below the average, could not wear a top hat and sit in this car." House and Senate obligingly approved the Postmaster General's purchase of a topper-fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language-dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody. Said he: "Beauty of sound is not enough. Mush is a word pleasant to the ear, but its connotation is ugly. Beauty of meaning is not sufficient...
...what extent do Negroes read white magazines? The booklet prints statistics gathered in 1929-1930 from dark families in Atlanta, Richmond, Nashville, Birmingham. Highest score was Literary Digest's 14% of 275 "business & professional" families. McCall's was runner-up with 9%; Ladies' Home Journal third, 7%. Among 702 "common and semiskilled labor" families, True Story topped the list with 4.8%. Among magazines for which only one subscriber was found: TIME, Vogue, Nation, College Humor...
...Gates's performers was Clyde Pangborn who flew around the world last year and got into trouble with Japanese authorities for taking photographs over forbidden area. Said "Cy" Caldwell, associate editor of Aero Digest: ". . . If Ivan had been on the job, Clyde not only could have taken the pictures but Ivan would have charged the Mikado $10 for looking at them and sold him a snapshot of himself and a bag of peanuts for $1 more...
...work is done in the afternoon or evening. There is a real satisfaction in seeing one's own article appear in print read by two thousand pairs of eyes, and the candidate in several ways gets much more out of the experience than the print which the readers may digest over their coffee the next morning...