Word: reviewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efforts to point out reasons for our usage would be puny compared to Will McGuire's excellent "A Note on Jook," so I will simply enclose a copy of his work for your information. This is taken from the spring 1938 edition of The Florida Review, published at the University of Florida...
When Lyle Manly Spencer and Robert Kenneth Burns were at college (University of Washington), they were a famed world-touring debating team, and Burns was also U. S. champion (so named by Pictorial Review) at selling magazine subscriptions. They were graduate students at the University of Chicago when they raised $16,000 from their friends and started Science Research Associates in a Chicago office. Their theory was that there were plenty of jobs to be had if people knew where to look. Now they have 55 researchers and writers studying industrial trends, new businesses, new professions, the 22,000 ways...
...TIME began publication of its Index of Business Conditions. Since then U. S. business has had a long slow sag, a shorter slow recovery, a sudden stimulant from war, a spurt to new high levels, a leveling off. TIME herewith presents, in relation to these events, a review of the movements of its Index and of the three components (see chart) of which the Index is a composite...
...subsidized enterprise, each is edited by its own patron, and each claims a more independent policy, a purer concern with pure literature, than professional publishing can show. Readers in the autumn of 1939 could look to them for such nonconformist stuff as The Dial and The Little Review used to print in the years before Depression...
...this article's publication, Winston Churchill arose in the House of Commons to give his fourth war review as First Lord of the Admiralty. With his usual dry punch he declared : "The destruction of U-boats is proceeding normally . . . between two and four a week...