Word: readers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Bealer and 176,397 Fiji Islanders (82,826 Fijis, 89,333 Indians, 4,238 Europeans), apologies...
...knuckles of TIME'S proofreaders; an apology each to General Count Juichi Terauchi and sharp-eyed Reader Andrews...
...Pope's nose to Reader Wiswell. A. Lincoln proclaimed: "... I do, therefor, invite my fellow citizens ... to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving...
...Central Europe. There must be at all times a Great Power to rule this heterogeneous mass of peoples who, if allowed to govern themselves, constitute an ever-present danger to the peace of Europe. And disposing of these absorbing problems with such vague generalizations, Miss Harding jerks the reader abruptly away from any further discussion and continues with her biographical narrative...
...20th Century a whole tribe of scholars and interpreters have encamped on the slopes of the Bard, assaying his every semicolon. Their discoveries have made a gulf great & wide between the specialist's knowledge of Shakespeare and the ordinary reader's memory, in which the plays are likely to seem bombastical old standbys, crested here and there with great quotations. To distill the specialist's knowledge, to provide a lucid and sound account of what art may now be seen in every play, remained an important job for somebody...