Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the Crimson represents in a manner Harvard's thinking and Harvard's expression, let us have, at least, a thoughtful proof-reader. IRVING KNICKERBOCKER...
Then suddenly, through the closing act, the mood deepens. The imminence of the Examiner hangs an oppressive cloud over the travelers. To tell of the manner of his coming and the exquisite semi-epilogue between the lowers would be to cheat the reader of a poignant emotional experience...
...great teacher, and always a man of immense activity. After he lost his eyesight, readers kept him abreast of developments in learning and literature. He was an insatiable reader in other languages than that which he taught. In his last year someone heard him recite practically the whole of Faust in German, and one of his former students says that he learned more about Latin, German, Italian and French from Professor Gildersleeve than he learned from his Latin, German, Italian and French teachers. Latterly, he amused and occupied himself by writing sonnets reminiscent of his early life...
...other hand, we do like our English diluted. A few words here and there in italics harm no one and give the reader a good deal of innocent pleasure. French is the most accustomed seasoning. A good round French oath makes all the difference, particularly in a detective story. Arsene Lupin is nowhere so redoubtable as where he breaks into his native idiom. A good part of the art of translation consists in knowing when not to translate. The result is that practically any current translation from the French reads like a perfumery advertisement on a theatre program...
...financial editor of The New York Times* in all this various Babel of tongues, shows his usual good sense. He listed the leading favorable and unfavorable tendencies now discernible in American Business, and left the conclusion for the reader to form for himself. Here are his lists...