Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phase of the Depression" as early as the autumn of 1930. He can analyze other people's analyses with devastating results. Yet his own conclusions are often challenged, and his vision is sometimes curiously narrow. But given a popular economic delusion, he can demolish it in one swift paragraph. His prestige has grown uninterruptedly throughout Depression, while the stature of other economic prophets was shrinking rapidly. Today he is one of the most-quoted bank economists in the land...
...newspaper of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, a town of no less than 2,576 citizens, an advertisement with great eye opening and persuasive qualities. Spread across half a page in huge bold-face italics were the words "Harvard College", and then followed in lesser type but equally bold this short paragraph...
Just reading the second line of the first paragraph of the article "Indiana-Purdue Deadlock" [TIME, March 16]. Quoting "To that state, flat as a huge gymnasium floor"-where do you think Indiana is? Out on the Texas Panhandle? True, we do have level areas but some of our best players come from down in them thar hills. Whoever wrote the article must have been too young to have read Abe Martin and have seen the pictures that went with it. Why, the New Deal says one-third of Indiana is so rough and hilly it should be made...
...newspaper an advertisement promising that the costlier Herex would contain new features, ''plenty of interest and entertainment for evening reading in your home. . . ." Feeling that any Hearstian reading matter consumed by Chicagoans in the evening should be supplied by his American, Publisher Meigs peremptorily deleted the offending paragraph...
...impressed by: (1) the name of Mr. Laughlin (recurring no less than eight times in the comparatively brief review); (2) the clever word-melanges (so characteristic of Mr. Laughlin's "Looking Across at the Silveratta,"); the note of self-satisfaction, brought jarringly to the fore in the paragraph captioned "Laughlin-Wolfe-Saroyan" (in order of importance...