Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supporters is as high as the good Doctor places it, but you may rest assured it's high. Walter Lippmann, who is back in the fold again, by the way, spiked it beautifully in a couple of articles, but the people who support that sort of thing don't read articles; they read dollar signs...
...what seemed to the student a momentous question. "I cannot doubt." says Professor Hillyer, "that, although my information enabled him to correct the single sentence he had in mind, his should will split its infinitives forever, and his spirit will be but a dangling participle. Certainly he will never read Mackail...
...gets out a school dictionary by the cheap and simple process of cutting down his big edition, condensing definitions, dropping illustrative sentences. The Thorndike-Century Dictionary is based on the reverse principle that children need simpler and fuller definitions than adults. From some 10,000,000 words which he read over a period of 17 years. Dr. Thorndike called out the 25,000 most common. Five years ago he began work on the definitions. Some he built around pictures, of which there are 1,800. Others he made up largely or wholly of illustrative sentences. When all were done...
...half million words was the estimated output of some 3,000 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated groups who met last week in Pittsburgh. They read and discussed 1,200 papers on subjects ranging from the folklore of Schoharie County, N. Y., to sarcomatous changes in mammary adenomas. Many an industrial and academic research laboratory had exhibits. Harold Clayton Urey, newest U. S. Nobel Laureate, was there. When the apparatus for making heavy water broke down he fixed it. Nobelman Robert Andrews Millikan was 'there to talk about cosmic rays, show the latest...
...person could have heard all the papers read at all the 'sectional meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Pittsburgh last week and could have inspected the whole proud array of exhibits, he would have departed with his head stuffed with such things...