Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your item under the head of Hosenselbständigkeitsgefühl [TIME, Jan. 5] . . . I have been delegated . . . to express admiration for the writer who understands the security of pants (Hosenselbständigkeit) and who deals with the subject with such deftness; but, on a vote taken, there was a protest against the writer's translation of the crisp word. We believe that it is better rendered as Confidence-in-your-pants-remaining-in-position -without -further-worry. A minority would substitute "panties" for "pants...
...everything is all right, and that he is going along fine than solicit help. It's not the value of the magnificent gifts you have shipped from Boston. That is great, But more valuable still is the spirit which prompted it, and my poor words cannot adequately express my personal thanks...
...somewhere in the devious channels of the Massachusetts State House. Although just about all educators in the Commonwealth presumably are strongly opposed to an act that would put every professor under almost as vigilant government gaze as an employee at Oak Ridge, Mr. Conant has been the first to express his denunciation in definite, well-publicized terms. He ably points out that being an asset to some government department and being a valuable member of a university faculty are far from one and the same thing. Nor should the "armed truce" atmosphere in the world today load to panic-stricken...
...science of deduction; it undertook to replace two existing sciences-logic and mathematics-by one new science, mathematical logic. Because Whitehead felt that "conventional English is the twin sister to barren thought" and that words are coated with ambiguities, he developed a language of mathematical symbols to express logical truths. This kept the Principia off bestseller lists, but not off the St. John's list of the 100 Great Books...
Daisy Chain. By mid-1947, the daisy chain of wage and price boosts had yanked up break-even points of many a corporation to the danger point. Warned the National Industrial Conference Board: "Many executives express great concern over the much higher break-even points today than in prewar years. Instances are reported where a moderate sales decline would wipe out all profits and result in deficit operations...