Word: readers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHEN Professor G. F. Moore writes a foreword to a book, Harvard men must approach the volume with respect. And when he finds "its point of view original and the presentation not only instructive but simulative of thought," most Harvard men will find the book interesting. To erudite readers who search their pages for inaccuracies Professor Moore sounds a warning that "in a work of such wide scope the critical reader will often discover in particulars of fact or of interpretation occasion for doubt or dissent." Bertrand Russell in his review of the book in the New York Nation...
...unnecessary repetition of phrases and explanations, as for example the constant definition of mana and miasma, which in the 538 pages of the book makes the reading frequently tedious. All the way through, there is a curious uncertainty on the part of the author in sensing what the reader knows and what needs explanation, so if the book had not been tested on an audience for timings and proportions. But with judicious skimming these shortcomings can be obviated, and there is compensation in the sympathetic treatment of the teachings of Buddha and Zoroaster, in the admiration for the Samurai...
Sirs: As a reader of TIME to its most minute paragraph I could not help noticing Earl M. Bartsch's letter "flaying" Vivian Horne...
...after day last week, in the divorce court of Judge Joseph Sabath in Chicago. An observer, not a divorce-seeker, was Mr. Rosenwald. As to how he would use his observations, he said: "I have nothing definite I can give out now. If you were a mind-reader you would know what the plans...
...York Central R. R. was rumored to have a merger in process of preparation; the Pennsylvania R. R. offered no plan but glowered at the other three. Details of the suggested mergers presented the reader with a somewhat forbidding assembly of names connected with "&'s," and listed such roads as the 45-mile Montour and the 13-mile Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny. The multiplicity of the branches obscured a clear view of their trunks...