Word: scans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of this prodigious amount of reading, Gissen says that he is a slow reader. "Books that I scan, I scan very quickly. I can usually tell in ten minutes if they're worth reviewing. For a review, I read very, very slowly. It's one thing to read for simple enjoyment; it's quite another thing to read for style, meat and accuracy. That isn't to say that I don't enjoy reading the books I review. It's not carefree reading...
...Asia, Miller argued that "with one-third of our income reverting to the government in taxes, and with perhaps 70 percent of this building defense against future wars, financing the current conflict in Korea or paying the bills left from World War II, it is vital for Americans to scan the causes of war, and work to eliminate or at least control them...
...Scan Alley...
...newspapers compete for the college leadership and the Northampton advertising market. "Scan" publishes twice weekly while the rival "Current," which went into business three years ago, comes out once a week. Students generally read both and favor the one their friends work for, "Current" runs an occasional feature but "Scan" gets more fresh news, has more original ideas, is better written, and certainly is more informative to the visiting reader than its competitor. Both papers ostensibly enjoy the competition but secretly wish their opponent would quit because there isn't enough advertising in the Smith community to feed two papers...
...Scan" suggested last October that the whole campus needs a going over. Noting that the Smith student had to bend to a bevy of rules that were non-existant on other campuses, the paper said editorially, "But a close breakdown reveals that it is our campus which is archaic, not the rules which are simply an adjustment to this condition. For instance smoking rules (Smith girls cannot smoke in their rooms), the paper said, exists because the dormitories aren't fireproof. Dormitory rules on returning are so rigid, it explained, because the campus is to discuss...