Word: rereadability
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This indifference is most felt in the larger advanced courses where the professor cannot take the time to check up on the papers. The more elementary courses show a distinct contrast. In fact they may serve as an example. In History 1 all the doubtful papers are reread by a different instructor, and great care is taken that the difference in marking of the section men is compensated...
...last week, Serafina di Leo read and reread her congratulatory telegrams. The newspapers told her what she already knew, that her debut as Leonora (// Trovatore) the night before had been successful if not sensational, that she had deported herself with accustomed confidence, displayed a powerful voice, bril liant if sometimes hard. . . . Lazily she stretched out, turned to the comic strips...
When the wheels of the big white Lock- heed Winnie Mae kicked a cloud of Roosevelt Field dust into the sunset one evening last week, they ended a story already read and reread by every newsreader in the land. Any urchin in the crowd of 10,000 that milled about the field could have told how the plane had left Solomon Beach near Nome two days before on the last laps of its round-the-world flight (TiME, July 6); how Navigator Harold Gatty had miraculously escaped serious injury when the propeller kicked him; how one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post...
...agree," replied Mme Joffre. "My husband reread and revised each page of his manuscript not once but dozens of times before he finally initialed it. It is evident that the Marshal wished every word to appear exactly as he left it in the final text. ' My husband's memoirs, Madame, will appear unexpurgated...
...died of cirrhosis of the liver. No less authorities than the late Henry Cabot Lodge, James Ford Rhodes implied that Webster was overfond of women, but Fuess categorically denies it. Webster had a slow but inexhaustible mind, no reputation as a wit, no interest in the arts. He reread Robinson Crusoe every year. When he spoke extemporaneously he often groped for the right word, would not be happy till he got it. Fuess makes no idol of Webster, but his biography will honor Webster's memory. "Even those biographers who have taken a malicious joy in exposing the blemishes...