Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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May I say a word in defense of "and/or" (TIME, Dec. 23)? This highly convenient phrase simply means "either one or the other or both." It makes it possible to say in one sentence what would otherwise require two or three. 1 fail to see why the expression of the...
Sirs: If you continue to ignore the decisions of the courts in the State of Illinois, I am going to cancel my subscription. In TIME, Dec. 23 you have an interesting article on the use of the phrase "and/or," and credit the criticism of this expression to one of the...
"Shall We Say?" "If these gentlemen believe, as they say they believe, that the measures adopted by this Congress and its predecessor, and carried out by this Administration, have hindered rather than promoted recovery, let them be consistent. Let them propose to this Congress the complete repeal of these measures...
These etchings are as accurate a representation of the ghastly havoc of war as one could wish to see, for they are almost photographic in their realism and have a brutal treatment which spares nothing, no matter how grim or repulsive. His "Wounded Man in Retreat" shows the head of...
English A instructors must, I suppose, concentrate on the expression of ideas rather than their abundance or soundness. In so far as the two objectives are separable, but I had dared to suppose that they would recognize two facts that it takes only a little experience in scholarly writing to...