Word: edition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After his trip to Armenia Lake will go to his home in Harverford, Pennsylvania, where he will edit a magazine with his wife. His special field, for which he is widely renowned, is Old Testament texts and Greek writings...
...Alfred Vagts's The History of Militarism, "much of military history is misleading as a result of the authors' deliberate intentions," most of the rest so stereotyped it is useless in determining what happened in any war. The confusion of battle is perpetuated because generals edit the official reports, and "word their orders in such an oracular fashion that victory, if it comes, can be traced to them, while failure, if it befalls," can be blamed on somebody else. To make sense of these bewildering official...
After his expedition to Armenia Lake will continue to live at Haverford, Pennsylvania, where he will write books and edit a magazine with his wife. At present Lake commutes by air to his home over the weekends...
...often with a feeling of insecurity that a member of the board undertakes to edit a paper on a day when the chief sources of news seem to have temporarily dried up. In such cases his sole consolation rests in the axiom that the presses must never cease rolling, and in the somewhat surprising tradition that the CRIMSON has always been published on schedule...
Determined to maintain the Star in high gear, President John Cowles took an apartment in Minneapolis to be close to the job and returned hard-bitten General Manager John Thompson to the publisher's post which he held until 1935. To edit the Star ably, Owners Cowles shifted from their Des Moines Register & Tribune 200-Ib. Managing Editor Basil Leon ("Stuffy") Walters, whose stubby nose scents news leagues away...