Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vari-Typers and similar machines that the Chicago Daily News had reached an alltime circulation high (505.277). Fortnight ago, the Trib had turned out the fattest daily paper (84 pages) in its history. But if newspapers looked much the same as in pre-strike days, they did not read the same. By & large, stories were duller, staler and skimpier...
...bringing worldly success? Apparently, the 127 had found them to be neither. But St. John's felt reassured on one point: there seemed to be no regrets. No one indicated that if he had it to do all over he would not start right in with Homer, happily read on up through Bertrand Russell again...
Rewards & Quests. As an example of failure, Bell cites the modern college freshmen as he sees them. "They cannot look at a thing and tell you what they see; listen to sounds and know what they hear; by the touch truly perceive form; sense how others feel and why; read, write, speak with any sure knowledge of how words are to be handled . . . think in general terms as distinct from specific and concrete particulars...
...Read & Write. Roberts' relationship to Neighbor Tarkington seems to have been that of apprentice to master. The kindly...
Tarkington drove him on, read his manuscripts (Roberts read them aloud to him when Tarkington's eyes went bad), made improvements and changes which Roberts accepted gratefully. "On some evenings he'd stop me at the end of almost every sentence, and we'd examine that sentence and push it around and rephrase it, clearing it up and sharpening it and smoothing it: adding a little to it ... [I] suggested that if he really thought the book had merit, he let me put his name on the title page with mine and take half the royalties...