Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...national issues. You then openly retaliated. While assigning sincerity to the man, you took occasion to say that he also cherished a selfish motive in writing as he did: namely, to swell the coffers of the Christian Century. In that respect he is no more selfish than the Literary Digest, the Pathfinder, or many a damp American daily. Are they not using Prohibition as an advertising scheme to increase circulation? Yet I have never seen your paper take insinuating cracks at them...
...Bancroft and Richter have sought some chemical which would peptize (digest, dissolve) the hard-boiled nerve contents but not injure other parts of the cells or of the body. Last week they cautiously said: "In the light of laboratory experiments, not yet ready for publication, we seem to have hit upon some-thing which promises favorable results...
...allies by our side. We wish that the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Scribners, were with us. We wish that the Nation, the New Republic, the Outlook (Lyman Abbott must have turned over in his grave when that paper recently became the most liquor-soaked organ in the country), the Literary Digest, TIME, the Forum, the World Tomorrow, or any other of the major weeklies were with us. But they are not. One dares to hope that among them one or two converts may yet be made...
...only interest I have in the statement which is to be inscribed on the mountain," said he, "is that it shall be as purely as possible a digest of what the subjects mean and that it shall be in beautiful English.* Posterity will hold me responsible for it whether I wrote it or not, I want it right...
...Aviation Country Clubs, decided that a magazine of quality would help interest the wealthy in flying, founded The Sportsman Pilot. Neither magazine made money. Last week both were purchased by gruff-voiced, genial Frank A. Tichenor whose business is publishing, who has made a success of his Aero Digest. Under Publisher Tichenor, The Sportsman Pilot will retain most of its present form. In Fore an' Aft increasing emphasis will be laid upon seaplaning, water-gliding, air-yachting. Editorially, Publisher Tichenor, disciple of Col. William ("Billy") Mitchell, will continue in all three to hammer upon his favorite notes: "To develop...