Word: delights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: A letter published in the Sept 14 issue of TIME pleading for more simple English words" may be only that one reader's request, but won't you please consider those of us who delight in coming upon new or unusual words? To me, a perusal of your incomparable paper is fraught with hid den joys because of the sport attendant on sedulously ferreting out the meaning of such refreshingly unusual expressions. When I read TIME, a modern dictionary is usually at hand; otherwise, I mark the words as I happen upon them...
...theory that is at least debatable. A comparison of your writer's views on English 41 and Comparative Literature 6 is illuminating. The latter receives a very thorough "roasting" while Mr. Perry's course evokes nothing but praise. This we learn is because English 4d succeeds in "making delight in literature contagious." Undoubtedly it does, for when a man is concentrating in literature (as, I think, Dr. Magoun has a right to believe that most of his students are), has not the instructor the right to assume that those who attend his course are already possessed of this delight. After...
...government boards, winning votes, signing petitions, leading cheers, etc. He is called the "flash," the "whiz," the "shark," the man who can, with little visible effort, rip and rend the more indigestible portions of the curriculum into tender shreds; the man who singles out tough courses for the sheer delight of picking high marks out of them; the man, the exceptional man, who would snatch at an honors course if only his university offered...
...Patralia (India) wore a blue turban, pink earrings, gold bracelets, frock coat. Senator Raoul Dandurand‡ of Canada was elected President of the present League Assembly (the 6th) on the first ballot and took up his duties; to the satisfaction of the Commonwealth because he is Canadian, to the delight of France because he is of French-Canadian descent. Said he: "It is not to myself but to my country that this great honor was paid...
TIME is ever welcome and almost an unalloyed delight, and altogether indispensible. But it would seem if your magazine is to inform the busy man, then the use of simple current English, so far as possible, should be the constant rule. I come across in the issue of Aug. 24, Page 18, Column 2 a very strange word-"bathysophical". What meaning that can convey to those who have little Latin and less Greek I should not venture to say. Search in the dictionaries and Concise Oxford, Webster Century is in vain. The contex would give to one knowing its Greek...