Word: scanned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a week of wandering I have returned once more to the confines of Cambridge and find for this morning such a wealth of courses spread before me that I find it difficult to choose my fare. Perhaps, if I scan the entire menu for this morning I shall be able to make up my mind what to take...
...want to express the appreciation many of us here feel for your way of editing the news. You treat affairs like an artist. . . . The dailies dump the news. We scan their columns and wait for TIME to tell. For you present affairs in a way that arouses interest, even causes emotion. Then your English is so finished! It reminds me personally of what Anatole France recounts of Denon and Louis XV: "When anything happened, the monarch would say, 'Tell us about it, Denon...
...long been known that Edward S. Jordan, President of Jordan Motors, writes his company's advertisements. Unlike many another captain of industry, he can scan The Saturday Evening Post and glow with a feeling of authorship. Against his occasional detractors he launches the modest battle cry: "I don't think much of Jordan advertising myself, but I love to write it. It's the only fun I have...
...passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely Puncheon's mound, the two enter the ancient graveyard and stay there reading the epitaphs till twilight falls around them. This is the tenuous framework upon which Walter De La Mare has shaped one more unearthly, sad and lovely book. Turning, as always, from what...
...though a Virginian and a liberal democrat, felt called upon to declare that "a great obstacle to good education is the inordinate passion prevalent for novels and the time lost in that reading which should be instructively employed." It would be no little shock to the presidential educator to scan the reading lists of English...