Word: clad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poorly-clad men jogged the elbow of a New York Times Berlin correspondent and whispered: "The German people do not approve of such treatment of the Jews." Bad Neighbor Policy. The harsh, explosive epithets in which the German language is rich, were heaped, together with obscenities, upon Jewish men, women and children in every part of the Reich...
...small office two blocks from the University of Chicago campus, shiny-pated. khaki-clad Count Alfred Korzybski toys with an odd little implement. He calls it the "structural differential." It consists of a series of plates punched full of holes (see cut). Like scientists who make models of atomic structures, Count Alfred, who is head of the Institute of General Semantics, expects important developments from his implement. With it and the theory it illustrates, he hopes to wipe out mankind's time-worn thinking habits, revolutionize its educational systems, create a sane new world. Last week he reported progress...
...would have attained a "Stover at Yale" quality but for the fact that practically everyone at Dartmouth-the dean, the football team, the coach, the college publicity office-behaved toward Gates with the utmost sympathy. In his room, a few nights before the Yale game, had appeared a white-clad figure who said: "I am the Lord, and I command you to play football with Dartmouth...
...writing a before-the-fray article a certain Boston correspondent mentioned the fact that the Harvard-Virginia foot-ball game would be the same old "Grant took Richmond" story. The orange-clad Cavaliers resented this sort of hospitality, and the result was that the Varsity football team went through the roughest, toughest battle seen on Soldiers Field this year, winning...
...Stanford, the University of California, U.C.L.A., and the University of Southern California the name of Harvard is a symbol of smugness. And to Dartmouth--which appears to their Cambridge brothers in study as a formidable part of the one-third of our nation which is "ill-clad, ill-fed, ill-housed"--Harvard represents the high horse of stuffiness...