Word: editing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never repay my debt to him. When I rewrote my doctor's thesis in book form, he offered to read it, and got Ginn and Company to publish it, and he reviewed it in the "Nation." Then he asked me to edit Gray's poems, and I mention this simply because Gosse's edition was so full of blunders and we were so diverted by them that I finally asked Kittredge to contribute a profactory article to my edition on "Gray's knowledge of Norse," and sign it with his initials. A look of delight came over his face. "Then...
...dewy youth passed and Alfred approached 60, he began thinking of foreign parts again. In the early '90s he went to Malaya to edit a paper, moved on to Japan to become European editor of Tokyo's Japan Times. In 1899, just after the beginning of Philippine-U.S. hostilities, Alfred arrived in Manila. Filipinos arrested the ambitious newshawk of 71 as a spy, left him bound and stripped in the jungle to be slowly devoured by flies. U.S. troops rescued him. Later he went to the U.S., worked on a San Francisco paper...
...friends were more specific. Said one of them: "You know he went off the deep end for a while. But Verne's all right now, and he's sorry for all the things he's done." Still rumorous were the reasons Verne Marshall never returned to edit after his expensive isolationist spree. (He had put up about $55,000 for full-page ads for the No Foreign War Committee.) More certain was the strong opposition to Marshall's steaming isolationist propaganda on page one of the Gazette, particularly on the part of Cedar Rapids' large...
John P. Elder, to edit the Virgilian works of Remigius of Auxerre, and the so-called Vatican Mythographers...
...sponsored broadcast when played at New Haven. Yale gets $37,500 annually-a sum which would just fit that hole in the H.A.A. budget-and there is good reason to believe that the Crimson could do as well as the Blue. Harvard, as Yale already does, could edit and control the sponsor's blurb before it went on the air waves. "Commercialization" has nothing to do with the problem-the choice lies between a good business deal and a malnourished athletic program...