Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most efficient readers, the favorite type of magazine is news comment; of the least efficient, pulps. Leading five magazines read by the 100 ablest readers in Professor Buswell's study were, in order of preference: Reader's Digest, TIME, Saturday Evening Post, American Magazine, Good Housekeeping. Most frequently read by the 100 poorest readers: True Story Magazine, Detective Story Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Liberty, Saturday Evening Post...
According to the guide, all Harvard men are not as desirable as the best of them, for there is another species "not the type one is apt to meet on a southern cruise," who is not so much the ladies' man, and who lacks the romantic danger of the others...
...Such wiuld be the 'meatball' type," the article declares, whom one sees grinding away, unkempt and bespectacled, in Widener Library; or the science major whose nose has been buried in a laboratory since he first entered Harvard, and so is neither very formidable nor very appealing...
Powers has lived up to his name in the free-style events, usually the 100, and seems to be the type of swimmer who will end up equally proficient in all distances free-style. Bosworth, former Exeter star, has a graceful, effortless backstroke second only to Graham, Cummin '38, Varsity flash. "Bozzie": usually is entered in the 50-yard free-style as well, and swims the event substantially under 25 seconds...
...Dyck type of head, with high forhead, strong chin and a glance of intense alertness. What is most remarkable is the vivid sense of life. This is created largely by an emphasis on the personal incidentals, the pupil of the eye, the crowsfeet and wrinkles, the wart on the cheek...