Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't see the point in the "Suppose Curtis B. Ball . . ." article, there is a little newspaper using only a 900-word vocabulary. Since it is intended for foreigners learning English, deaf elementary-school children (whose handicap retards their linguistic development), Indian children, adult illiterates, etc. may we suggest that those who cannot get the points in TIME subscribe to The American World for the next school year. . . . One of the first words learned is the word "if," which if TIME-readers had understood, would have made the whole article clear. . . . ELAINE SWENSON...
...suggest that you get a list of outstanding installations from one or two other leading organ manufacturers, especially Moller and Austin, and then judge for yourself whether the above-mentioned statement should be corrected...
Before embarking officially upon any campaign of eugenics, sterilization and birth control, may we suggest that upon a ballot be placed the names of the leading thinkers who will decide who shall and who shall not have off-spring? It is just barely possible that somebody who Dr. Glueck might believe should not have children, might himself by just low-down and ornery enough to think that Dr. Glueck should not reproduce. And we know too much that is good about Dr. Glueck to agree to any such proposal. --Boston Traveler
...words: "Neither the millions and millions of people constituting the reading public nor the hundreds of individuals representing the overwhelming majority of newspaper publishers can, in any way, be concerned with or wrought up over the silly and wholly unjustified conversation on the part of a small minority who suggest that the freedom of the Press has been either destroyed or assailed." The President's rebuke to the Free Press defenders was part of his message to the 25th annual banquet of the University of Missouri School of Journalism at Columbia. Mo. where the National Editorial Association of small...
There was nothing in Henry Raeburn's face and little in his life to suggest the best painter Scotland ever produced. His thin lips, wide-apart eyes and thick eyebrows might have been those of a shipowner or an engineer. His life was so ordered that almost any year of it might be interchanged with another with no loss of continuity. His miller father and his mother died shortly after his birth in 1756 in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, leaving him to the care of an elder brother. After an undistinguished education at Heriot's Hospital, he was apprenticed...