Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer the editorial," wrote Grimes, "the fewer the readers . . . It is much easier to write a long editorial on a single subject than two very short ones on two subjects...
...Many things operate to keep an editorial writer's opinion of himself in proper perspective. He can never be sure of himself, for while he may write his heart out about something that really matters without attracting the least attention, let him mention some trifling subject like pumpkin pie [which Grimes recently likened to axle grease] or the price of putty, and the compliments or condemnations pour...
...week starting Friday, Dec. 16. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...
They made a surprisingly fine exhibition, and one that proved that subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and Roger Chapelain-Midy, or the sophistication of Oscar Dominguez' half-abstract Christmas tree, with its candles that cast pointed black shadows from each glowing wick, or the wit of Gustave Singier's bright blue abstraction, Noel Provencal, which looked as mindlessly gay and involved as a game...
Basing his conclusion on the assumptions that human behavior is a natural phenomenon and is an orderly process, Zipf listed three impediments to world domination. The first is the movement of persons, goods, information, and services which is subject to the harmonic law, governing the rank and size of cities...