Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impact of a TIME book review is no secret in the publishing world. Writing from New York in Books and Bookmen, Britain's new book-trade monthly, Geoffrey Wagner analyzed what he called the strong sales "pull" of a TIME review, reported that the reading public placed great faith in TIME'S Books section...
...naked, torn and shattered bodies, a head here, an arm, a leg there-protruded like marbles from the sapphires of the sea and the golden desert of the sands, and the sunshine of eternity rang around them . . . For an age-one lonely, solitary, divine and everlasting moment-the full impact of the terrible destiny of his fellowmen struck Falconer between his eyes ... A love for all his brothers, a pity in all their foolish and vain sacrifices, covered his eyes in sorrow and gladness...
...House passed (and privately expected the Senate to kill) a sure-fire election-year special: pensions of $90 a month to veterans of World War I, aged 65 and above. But the congressional action that would have the biggest and most immediate impact on the people of the U.S. (see BUSINESS) was enactment of the historic $33.5 billion federal-state road-building program, signed by the President before leaving Walter Reed Hospital. Starting this week, the U.S. motorist will begin to pay for the unprecedented 41,000-mile project with a tax of one cent more for every gallon...
American, which began life in the days of the second Grant Administration as Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, embraced the whole rise of mass magazine journalism. Changed to American in 1906, it spent a muckraking youth publishing Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker, made its biggest impact under Editor John Siddall, who pushed circulation from less than 500,000 to over 2,000,000 between 1915 and 1923 with the inspirational magic of success stories. In its time, American was the first to run Kipling's If and Edna Ferber's short stories, ranged...
...invention of "charity racketeers," and he ignored Hitler as passing nonsense. Soon he and the Mercury were on the skids, and from 1933 until his 1948 stroke, he busied himself mainly with reminiscence (Newspaper Days) and scholarship (supplements to The American Language). Author Angoff skirts his lasting impact. Mencken, who detested democracy, ironically democratized U.S. life and art. He made Babbitt-land so culture-conscious that Babbitt disappeared. He lampooned frauds in high places so lustily that no public figure has been sacrosanct since. Partly because of his blasts at the prissy genteel tradition, much of American fiction became...