Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After having subscribed to your magazine for many years and read it in many places-in Madagascar, when you described the 1947-48 rebellion there; in Johannesburg, when you published your famous article about the dangers of living in that city; and in Kenya, during the Mau Mau emergency-I canceled my subscription and became one of your critics. As an Englishman, I felt that your reporting was a disservice to the British Commonwealth and the free world in general...
Since then I have surreptitiously bought your magazine from time to time, for it is so readable. I fell from grace again, and was delighted to read what you had to say about Queen Elizabeth's visit to Canada and about the Commonwealth generally. I might renew my subscription...
...short, barking essay and examples in parallel columns-right v. wrong, timid v. bold, ragged v. trim. Strunk had pet usages; he insisted on forming the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's regardless of the final consonant (Rule 1 ). It would have enraged him to read a modern newspaper headline about Bonnie Prince Charlie: CHARLES' TONSILS...
...instruments-some of them so tiny that a week's production fits into the rear of a station wagon. Many of them are so sophisticated that even company brass are hard-put to explain how they operate. From 128's small companies come devices that can read print optically, or probe space to guide a missile...
...automatic accounting systems. Four years ago Farrington moved into one of the highway's larg-« est plants (354,000 sq. ft.), there prints credit cards (for Hilton, 35 oil companies, all the airlines), manufactures printed circuits. It also produces a remarkable machine: an electronic scanner that reads, then transmits the information it has read onto cards or tapes that can be used by IBM machines and other automated systems. Expected sales this year: $12 million...