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...words, as in bathing suits and men's manners toward women, taboos change with the times. Fifty years ago the word leg was not used in polite mixed company. Today, at respectable dinner tables, words are casually uttered that would make Victorians blush, blanch or burst. Last week a college professor made a scientific report on the use of words that are still "socially questionable" in some circles...
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...TIME, Oct. 18, in your discussion of ceramics, you quote Roman Pliny -"Sanctiora auro, certe innocentiora." The citation is as apt and as moral as the quotation itself, but I must blush for your translation-"more sacred than gold, and a damn sight less harmful." Such a rendition assumes that Pliny wrote in the manner of a modern encyclopaedic general and columnist who is both ribald and biblical, and that the Latin word "certe" had assumed new meaning since the birth of Christ. . . . The Romans swore in a different way, invoking Hercules, Castor, or Pollux most frequently. . . . SYDNEY J. MEHLMAN...
There might as first blush seem to be some reason for putting this work into the recess, since it hardly requires any formal instruction, and, for anyone who can give time to it, it is universally delightful. The King James Bible is what Professor Lowes calls the noblest monument of English prose," while the name Shakespeare speaks for itself; and the reading in the ancient authors, Homer and the like, is hardly less attractive. Yet to expect the student to take time off from his regular summer pursuits, whether it be a job or travel or merely routine of outdoor...
...skill and success with which the ticklish job was launched lent a blush of color to the proposed Moscow-San Francisco airline. The route is by far the most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...