Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Youth Today, edited by Newspaperman Harry Miller, 38, father of three children, is like Reader's Digest. It condenses from grownups' newspapers and magazines articles that are believed to be particularly interesting to youth. Youth Today also will pick a boy and a girl of the month. Girl of the Month for October: Alma Sheppard, 12, of Hanover, Pa., who drove her father's trotter to three world's harness racing records. Boy of the Month: Edward Higgins, 11, of Pueblo, Colo. Born without arms, Edward Higgins can sew on buttons with his toes...
...Literary Digest straw poll, although it came to a disastrous end when it predicted that Alfred Mossman Landon would be elected President in 1936, demonstrated that public opinion polls have a commercial value. Result is that at least half-a-dozen organizations today are periodically polling the U. S. public on what it eats, what it thinks, whether it expects to come to a good end. First modern scientific pollitician was big-eared, sharp-nosed Dr. Henry Charles Link, director of the Psychological Corporation's Psychological Service Centre in Manhattan. Dr. Link, who thinks mankind needs more religion...
...dull as the Literary Digest," TIME's pages with run-of-the-mill American cartoons...
...Other "quality group" magazines: Scribner's Magazine, Current History, Forum (including Century), Review of Rcvieivs (combined with the Literary Digest, later incorporated in TIME...
...would make patients forget their aching joints. Modern doctors put the bee on patients more scientifically, first anesthetizing an arthritic joint with ethyl chloride, then applying artificial stings. Seventy-three out of 100 cases in New York Hospital were improved, said Dr. Jacques Kroner and associates in Current Medical Digest last month. Most of the cases showing no improvement were of long standing...