Word: careful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much more appropriate, it seemed, would be the use of the time-honored "goody", explained by the famous lexicographer as "a woman who takes care of students' rooms, Harvard University...
James Laughlin is not alone in his quest for the purging of our language. At the end of his selection of the last year's best books, Clifton Fadiman made a plea to young authors that they write with more care towards the use of words. Wilson Follett complained that the definition of a sentence as "a complete thought expressed in words" had become obsolete. The economist, Stuart Chase, in a recent provocative article, urged that the way to make language a better vehicle for ideas was to pursue the science of semantics, which teaches that the two main sins...
...lives. To this zone went thousands of frantic Chinese soldiers, eager to exchange their uniforms for civilian garb, or even to strip themselves to their underclothing lest the Japanese execute them as soldiers. Upon Rev. John Magee, able Episcopal missionary, lately of Shanghai, fell the job of organizing medical care in Nanking, Chinese army hospitals being completely inadequate. With two missionary doctors and two American nurses-whose dormitories were looted when the Japanese entered the city, as were faculty houses at Ginling College for women-the U. S.- supported University of Nanking Hospital remained open through the siege and fall...
...engine, it looks like a lopsided tricycle, will probably sell for less than $375. Said he: "It is the solution of the nation's troubles. Get agriculture and industry working hand in hand and that will mean the farmer and workingman are partners. ... I don't care if we can't make a cent of profit. The main thing is to get something started...
...face of it. C. & O's explanation for refusing to aid the Erie meant either that the road did not care to throw any more money after the $45.000.000 it already has tied up in Erie securities, or dreaded stockholders' suits if it did. President Roosevelt in press conference took occasion to criticize the C. & O. stand. Jesse Jones, eying C. & O. and its holding company, Alleghany Corp.. with the suspicion that Van Sweringen holding companies have often merited in the past, had two other explanations to offer. Said he first: "The only thing I can assume...