Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emotions have a great deal to do with raising intraocular pressure. Anyone who has been practicing ophthalmology for any length of time has seen cases where an emotional storm has brought on an acute attack of glaucoma with complete loss of vision. I realize that an editor of a public journal, such as TIME, is in a rather difficult situation, but I do think that such mat ters should be submitted to some medical authority for advice before being written up as this was in TIME...
When newshawks got through to Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair at Long Island's damp Lido Country Club, he was mystified. "The title of our publication denotes a frivolous, satirical periodical," he explained...
...Arts at Iowa's State University, thought that in 1917 at the age of 48 he had retired for good to raise horses. Back in 1922 he left his farm, moved to Manhattan. Five years later he sold his idea for a new encyclopedia, along with himself as editor, to the Columbia University Press...
Last week Editor Ansley sent his "Z's" to the printer. True to his word, he had crammed a goodly amount of the world's knowledge into one fat volume of 5,000,000 words. To save space he had done away with pictures and paragraphing, abbreviated mountain to mt., county to co. Staff-written, the encyclopedia had required the efforts of some 200 writers. In an off-hand moment Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, finding the volume good, named it the Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Press priced it at $17.50, promised delivery some time...
...Proud is Editor Ansley that his Encyclopedia is up-to-date enough to include Babe Ruth's departure from the Boston Braves last June. Even prouder is he that it covers such neglected U. S. subjects as the Conestoga wagon, lassoing, Turkey in the Straw, Pemaquid...