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Word: reader (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glance around any modern bookshop is proof that current literature is far greater in amount than the average reader can hope comfortably to taste, to chew, or to digest. The student in Harvard naturally feels somewhat at a loss which way to turn when presented with such a volume of reading matter. The value of some sort of selection in this maze of books seems obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAIN AND THE CHAFF | 11/6/1929 | See Source »

...pages until 1931; thereafter I suppose "the sky will be the limit" to advertising. I am one of those who is overfed with advertising and have cancelled my subscription to a number of magazines and publications which force advertising into the reading pages and insist that the reader must take this meretricious hash, whether he wants to or not. I have already written once before protesting against what I consider an insufferable impertinence on the part of modern publishers, to whom the advertiser is the commanding force and who treat the convenience of the readers with contempt. I recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Anton Lang, who has played Christus three times, was succeeded by his cousin, Alois Lang, chosen from three candidates. The part is exhausting. Anton is too old. So he was made the prolog reader. Alois Lang, now 38, was understudy to Anton Lang in the last performance (1922). He failed then of election to the Christus role by only a few votes and played the High Priest Nathaniel. Like his revered cousin, Alois Lang looks the part - a gentle carver of wooden Christs who has been letting his hair and beard grow for years to be prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Christus | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Last week the New Yorker, Manhattan weekly smartchart, told how a gentleman aboard the Mauretania en route for Manhattan last June, spent the better part of four afternoons on a sequestered deck-bench reading Authoress Delmar's Loose Ladies. The reader was John Pierpont Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Belmar's Delmar | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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