Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine-tenths of the assessable property. The more their power increased, the more President Kruger sought to milk them with taxes and curb them with limited franchise; the more he succeeded, the more vengeful they became. As one old Boer summed it up: ''There are two riders but only one horse. . . . The question is which rider is going to sit in front...
Louise Bogan, Manhattan poet-critic (for the New Yorker), moved into the Library of Congress' chair of poetry (term : one year; duties: comfortably vague), succeeding Southern Agrarian Poet-Critic-Novelist Robert Penn Warren (Night Rider...
...first rehearsal with the NBC orchestra (while permanent Maestro Toscanini quietly watched maneuvers from a studio corner), he told the musicians: "Meeting an orchestra for the first time is like a rider meeting a new mount-he isn't quite sure he'll go over the fence ahead of the horse or the horse ahead of him. I hope we'll take all the fences together." The audience at his first broadcast saw little chance that his musicianship would challenge that of wise old Arturo Toscanini, who hand-picked Dr. Sargent and who rarely encourages a serious...
...Drop the practice of attaching riders to bills which, in the main, have nothing whatever to do with the subject of the rider. (Such legislation is usually hung on appropriation bills, often forces a President to accept objectionable legislation, helps stuff the pork barrel...
Librarian Rider, a hard man to satisfy, objects to current Readex practice because the cards, like microfilm, must be boxed and stored. He would carry the process one step further, use standard card-catalogue cases, simply microprint each book on the back of its card. There would be no writing out of slips, no waiting for books to be brought from the stacks. An average library file drawer containing 2,300 cards, estimates Rider, would hold as many "books" as 168 ft. of shelves. It is already possible, he reports, to microprint 250 book pages on one side...