Word: text
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harry Jee, Canton-born 27 years ago, is editor of the Chinese Journal, one of two Chinese dailies in New York City. The Chinese Nationalist Daily is conservative, regular; the Journal, militantly liberal, highly irregular. Its eight pages of Chinese text are written in longhand by Editor Jee and two assistants. Eight compositors, lightning fast at their trade, set the Chinese characters by hand at the rate of half a column per hour. The Journal is read by 6,500 Chinese...
...Even more amazingly, they were written in ancient Hebrew-first important ones yet discovered in that tongue, which was outmoded even in the time of Christ, who spoke Aramaic. Some words on the 2,500-year-old potsherds were spelled exactly as they are in the Masoretic Text (present-day Hebrew Scriptures...
Taking as his title "The Pied Pipers," and as his text the anti-Administration outpourings of Rev. Charles Coughlin and Senator Long, Hugh Johnson cried: "You can laugh at Father Coughlin-you can snort at Huey Long-but this country was never under a greater menace. ... It is somebody time for somebody to get up on his hind legs and howl !" Up on his hind legs was precisely where General Johnson got and howl he did at the radio pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower: "While I do not for a moment compare Father Coughlin with...
...Keeley institute provides a cure for the drinking habit. At the Tivoli I have a cure for the gambling habit. The man who steps into my place is faced with the sign, 'Caveat Emptor' which hangs upon the wall." For the improperly educated, Soapy translated the Latin text into real life. When Denver finally decided it was tired of Soapy and his kind, he moved on again, this time to Mexico, where he almost sold old Porfirio Díaz the services of a Mexican Foreign Legion, which Soapy, for a good round sum, was to organize among...
...passage, interpreting it in accord with the disparity between the present and the past, making clear the while why the passage is significant--in addition to this he so fires his students with enthusiasm that some feel driven to research of their own, while the majority return to the text with a deep and lasting understanding of its true meaning. Because Professor Kittredge accomplished these two results virtually to perfection, he is responsible for our conception of Shakespeare and has himself taught every recognized Shakespearian authority in modern America...