Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Between 1910 and 1945, said the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, the "female rate of chronic alcoholism" dropped from...
...writes seven localized sport columns to go with the tables, so that the Portland Oregonian can tell its readers when to go deer hunting while the Miami News tips off its readers to the best sail-fishing time. Among other subscribers: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Bulletin...
...editor of The Clearing House, a secondary-school journal, was tired of complaints that school kids learned fundamentals better in the good old days. He didn't believe it. Last week Editor Forrest Long said it wasn't so: measured by a ninth-grade examination given in 1846, youngsters of 1947 had proved a little better taught than their great-grandparents in spelling, a lot better in arithmetic...
...Washington, D.C. the U.S. Journal, a glossy 10? daily which sought glory as the only Washington outlet for Walter Winchell, gave up after only three weeks. Cause of death: poor circulation...
...experiment until we discover a machine art." As art critic and esthetic philosopher, Read is erudite and discerning; as a writer, he is precise and dry, so that his prose shows at its best on subjects that need no embroidery. Example: the World War I chapter named "A Journal of the Retreat of the Fifth Army from St. Quentin," which English critics have justly ranked with the best war writing of the century...