Word: clammed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Observing his own children and grandchildren, Thorndike noted that these babblings sometimes repeated themselves in connection with the same act or object, at first by chance, then deliberately. Thus a primitive man may have babbled "ik" as he poked with a stick or "kuz" as he dug up a clam, then repeated the sound when he poked or dug again...
Eventually, Thorndike believes, the man attached the sound "ik" to stick, in a lifetime developed in this way a private language of perhaps 20 to 25 words. Making himself understood was harder, but his fellows, hearing him cry "Kuz!" whenever he found a clam, finally caught...
Last week Archie toyed with uncommunicative Cinecomic Roland Young ("I think his mother was frightened by a clam"). In its time Duffy's has found similar salutes for shapely Dancer Vera Zorina ("The terpsicorpse from the ballet"), Information Please' s Clifton Fadiman ("What do you know - besides every thing?"), portly Elsa Maxwell ("Speaking of the Four Hundred, how're you and the other 398?"), and the Lone Ranger, whom Archie steadily addressed as Lone ("Lone, say hello to little Wilfred...
...many Yeomanly duties would be "guesting" a column for a soon-to-be married-and-thus no-time to-write Ensign However, the situations with which I have been confronted, the problems which I have tackled, and the impatient Ensigns whom I have pacified with a few clam words and a sheath of incorrectly filled forms, have, I believe, if not prepared me for this journalistic task, at least given me the course to speak my place (or peace ... depending upon the interpretations...
...first job which will be tackled will be the collection of constrictions from all students including those in Naval Well. The Cornell has already real eat letters to all members of the new Freshmen clam taking them to pledge $7 to the Student Council Fand