Word: classedness
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Last week the Roosevelt Administration took up Mr. Wilson's gun-or-butter theme. Fragile, 73-year-old Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson announced that non-military airplanes hereafter will be classed as butter. With chilly disapproval, he quoted a report that booming, under-equipped U. S. airlines...
They don't all live in flats cooking meals and washing diapers. Of the graduate group studied six could be classed as capitalists, 75% own their own cars, and 12% have chauffeurs to drive them.
Continued refusal by University authorities to grant an open hearing, the letter concluded, "will inevitably lead many to the conclusion that the University of Michigan can no longer be classed among the truly free institutions of higher learning."
Said the court: "We think that Congress, in the use of the word 'plant,' was speaking in the common language of the people." The court also recalled that the Supreme Court once classed the tomato as a vegetable for tariff purposes, although scientists call it a fruit.
» California Mexicans raised a row when they were first classed as "Indians," got reclassified as "white."