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Word: digestion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Notes. Out came a 20-page musical weekly, Top Notes, under the aegis of the established monthly Musical Digest. Ubiquitous Pierre Key, wide-acquaintanced Editor of the monthly, was revealed as Editor of the weekly too. Chatty in tone. Top Notes aimed to be informative; it carried news and comment on musical affairs, radio, musical comedy. Pre-natal influence noted: The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Magazines | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...glance around any modern bookshop is proof that current literature is far greater in amount than the average reader can hope comfortably to taste, to chew, or to digest. The student in Harvard naturally feels somewhat at a loss which way to turn when presented with such a volume of reading matter. The value of some sort of selection in this maze of books seems obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAIN AND THE CHAFF | 11/6/1929 | See Source »

Mexican News Digest New York City Digester Oliver's request, both flattering and courteous, must be refused because NEWSCASTING (now given from 65 stations throughout the U. S.) is copyrighted by TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...that Wilfred John Funk is the name of a 46-year-old, married resident of Montclair, N. J. (Manhattan suburb). Montclair's Funk answers Contributor Funk's self-description in all important particulars, with the added particular that he is Publisher of the large, middle-aged Literary Digest. Publisher Funk last week evaded inquiries but did not deny that Publisher Funk and Contributor Funk are one & the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rhymester Funk | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Dean Pound's commencement address to the daughters of Eve at Wellesley he intimated that in eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge we have not partaken of what was forbidden, as did our first parents, but have merely eaten "more than we can digest" and are suffering a no more serious consequence than "a nightmare of disillusionment." We have had an "orgy of idealism," an extravagant faith in "a perfectibility to be brought about by law." If as been as if we, too, had believed the word of the serpent that eating of this tree would enable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tree of Knowledge | 6/20/1929 | See Source »

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