Word: context
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make this sentence stick as something more than a sentence torn out of context, Candidate Dewey pointed out that in traveling "down that New Deal road" there are now "55 Government corporations arid credit agencies with net assets of $27,000,000,000," that the Government now owns or operates one-fifth of all the manufacturing plants in the U.S. (Actually, most of these are war plants.) Governor Dewey charged that thus "little by little, the New Deal is developing its own form of corporate state." That, said Candidate Dewey, was why Comrade Browder favors Term IV -that...
...with Army officers and publishers in New York City, Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft (after blaming the Army for enforcing the law too literally) agreed to sponsor an amendment to his Title V of the Soldier Vote Act which would make it "easier to administer . . . clearer in context." Unappeased, some publishers and writers still demanded outright repeal...
...Election Year." Last week the pebbles in Minister Lyttelton's mouth were much in evidence. As the context of his words showed and as his explanation made plain, he was trying to pay the U.S. a strong compliment. Because of the U.S. opposition to aggression, he might have worded his praise, the U.S. made plain to Japan long before Pearl Harbor that she must give up her plans of Asiatic domination or fight. The U.S. was aggressive against the aggressors. But Minister Lyttelton's bumbling word "provoke" gave Axis propagandists a field day. Immediately Jap Domei...
...left, he made a short speech to all the officers of the division. It was such a speech, as the one in which he was quoted as saying: "This stuff about tremendous losses [in the invasion] is tommyrot." But that comment was no gush of rash optimism; in context it was a simple statement of Bradley's faith in the fighting qualities of U.S. infantrymen...
...first lecture will deal with "Moral Faith and Moral Criticism." The following week, on Friday, April 21, Professor Edman will discuss "Religious and Philosophical Imagination." The final lecture on Friday, April 28, will be concerned with "Philosophy in the Context of the Arts...