Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholars issued their revision in 1611, The American Bible is newly translated from the original texts, result of some six years of labor by five able savants.* Secular in appearance but convenient to the eye are its single-column pages, dialog in quotation marks, with subtitles and paragraph headings; verse numbers are set in the margins. Its advertised modernity caused captious critics to hunt up expressions which are not current in the U. S. A Chicago reader, for example, found "footpad" (see below) and triumphed briefly until it was discovered that the Chicago Tribune currently uses the word...
...your issue of Sept. 28, under the heading Japan-China, the first paragraph contains this sentence: "When Alfonso XIII was driven from his throne, U. S. Ambassador Irwin Boyle Laughlin was out of town...
Your leading editorial for October 29, entitled "Conservative Labour" comments on the collapse of the British Labour Party with enthusiasm but with little knowledge. The whole editorial is notable for the fund of ignorance which it displays. I quote the last paragraph...
...remember correctly, George Beatty landed a Model B Wright on this same field at least two years before I did, and the late Blair Thaw turned the trick along about 1915 with a private plane built for him by Harold Kantner. It would appear from TIME'S paragraph that the Bathtub Earl did not join the Central Park Flying Squirrels until 1917, which would put him a long way from charter membership. I suggest that the archives of the Carroll Press Department be altered accordingly. GUY GILPATRIC Cros de Cagnes, A.M., France...
...properties that governesses love." But he is no fatalistic pessimist. "It may be that God made the world, but that is no reason why we should not make it over." He pays his irreverent respects by the way to many an established notion, sums up psychoanalysis in a neat paragraph. "I do not think that psychoanalysts have reflected very deeply upon the distinction between phantasy and reality. I suppose that for practical purposes 'phantasy' is what the patient believes, and 'reality' is what the analyst believes...