Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boats are blunt-ended like the punts still popular on conservative British rivers. Forty-five feet long by four feet wide, they were built of four-inch, hewn-oak planks, laced together with yew-fiber ropes, the seams caulked with moss. They showed that the ancient Britons were seagoing (or at least river-going) long before the Romans discovered them...
...British journalists, uneasy at hearing German in a London press conference. As the speaker continued, there was more than his language to make his listeners uneasy. He was veteran Socialist Dr. Kurt Schumacher, who raised his voice on what was technically still enemy soil, and he had some blunt and bitter truths for the victors...
Rough, religious Americans of the 17th Century had a handful of homemade rules of etiquette that were ambitious ("Cloath your selves with the Silk of Piety, the Satin of Sanctity, the Purple of Modesty . . .") and sometimes blunt ("Fish and visitors stink in three days"). By the 18th Century, they had learned to plagiarize the French and English rule-books, after carefully tossing out all that smacked of aristocratic cynicism...
...Meaning of Meaning"; the now famous book on semantics. Ogden and Richards had found that many of even the most formidable intellects were forgetting an important thing-that the label or name of an object is not the object itself. Professor Richards shudders at so blunt and naive a formulation, and would rather put it that "the forms of language over-influence the forms of thought." Which meant that many philosophers were mistaking the word for the thing, communicating their meaning imperfectly, and in short often didn't know what the hell they were talking about. Ogden and Richards were...
...blunt report in the novel-form of Mary Jane Ward's The Snake Pit (TIME, May 6), Asylum Piece is a highly sensitive, subtle attempt to see the world through the eyes of a score of demented people, true not to life but to the living death of insanity...