Word: contexts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their paragraph on the speech of England's Best People. Authors Douglas & LeCocq disclose some of the secrets of its complex simplicity, consisting of " 'um's, 'aw's, and 'er's, the meanings of which vary according to the context. 'Um' may mean 'These are good tripe and onions.' 'You smell like a rose,' or 'Waiter, another whisky and soda.' This sort of thing makes it difficult for the foreigner, but the English themselves can tell instantly what is meant by the lack of inflection...
...hard to disagree with a great many of the statements in Mr. Nittle's communication printed in last Saturday's CRIMSON. One statement in particular, however, irked me because of its falsification of the context of my communication printed in last Friday's CRIMSON. He states: ". . . attempt to apply this sacred idea of eternal Truth in defense of bankers and such . . ." Was not the whole point in my letter that the New Deal is in part an attempt to give Big Business an even greater opportunity to dominate the country...
...made "the forgotten man," of Professor William G. Sumner, one of Yale's greatest teachers, a figure in the campaign of 1932, the New Haven Journal-Courier suggests that "Mr. Roosevelt has used some of Sumner's phrases, to be sure, but only by a cruel mayhem on their context." That is undoubtedly true; the new deal runs counter to much of the economics that Sumner taught, also to much that Arthur T. Hadley taught, both as a professor of economics and after he because Yale's president...
...reported to have expressed a feeling that there is no reason why silver should be less an object of speculation than wheat or gold. This is a very beautiful thought, indeed, but it is to be hoped that the Senator's remark was torn ruthlessly from its proper context. As it stands, it is a rather pitiful revelation -- of the Senator...
...effort to "incorporate" and to "organize" the state means, in the modern context of opposed class interests, the choice of one of those classes. Mr. Roosevelt can come out baldly for the industrialists, forbid the right of strike, set wages, and run the whole private profit economic structure with the iron hand, not of court orders and injunctions, but of executive dictatorship. Or he can encourage and strengthen labor to the point where it will revolt, not only against the profit system, but against his own middle of the road administration, and another executive dictatorship, in the interests...