Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day found seven Justices in their chairs ready for Senator Reed. "Freedom of the press," was the Senator's text. Any man can see the income tax list, can gossip to his neighbor about it, can broadcast it by radio-by what logic can a newspaper be restrained from publishing it? The Senator also reviewed the history of publicity legislation to prove that Congress had moved progressively-in 1913, 1915, 1916, 1918 and finally in 1924-towards complete tax publicity...
...your issue of Mar 9. was published my letter calling attention to the improper spelling of the past tense of the verb "to broadcast." Just returning from abroad, I have noticed the publication of letters in TIME, Mar. 23 issue from two grammaticasters, viz: Mr. G. C. Miles of Princeton, N J, taking direct issue, and Mary Adda Reade of Oak Park, III., talking beside the point...
Authority for using "broadcast" as the past tense of the verb "to broadcast" may be found on page 279 of Webster's New International Dictionary, 1920. Also usage by 1,500 radio announcers in the U. S. and Great Britain and a dozen magazines representing the current radio art. The verb form was adapted 15 years ago by the U. S. Navy when a word was needed to denote wide dissemination of radio information to ships...
...Mary Reade is joking, I chuckle with her. If not, she might refer to page 939 of Webster's New International Dictionary, 1920, giving one definition of the adjective "grammatical" as "of or pertaining to" grammar. Therefore to use the word "broadcasted" as the past tense of the verb "to broadcast" is properly referred to as a "grammatical" error. A. H. MILES
...were the most competent judges of short stories in the U. S.; hence a collection of tales selected by them would be the most authoritative volume of "best stories of 1924" conceivable. Enthusiastically the editors agreed to this proposition; agreed to choose; agreed to permit their names to be broadcast when the World republished and syndicated the series...