Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fought principally for the strategic reason of obtaining possession of the Dardanelles, the study of at least one of the dead languages may take on a certain flavor of romance which almost always attaches itself to the historical past, but which sometimes refuses to grace what is pure fiction. The legend of Roland, for instance, dying in the Roncesvalles, is far more appealing to the imagination than any wholly man made fairy tale. If one can believe, no matter how faintly, in what one reads and hears, interest increases to a surprising extent. While it is of course impossible...
...though Mr. Williams frankly admits that he has never been there. The episode of his hero's experience as a hard-working king in the South Seas, sandwiched in between the incidents at Yale and New York, is one of the most entertaining bits in the season's fiction...
...FICTION...
...interesting of the general public in the performance of scientists and practical applications of their discoveries is an increasingly important field, too often neglected, and too often made difficult by the inflexibility of the publisher's demands. In this field, then, rather than in the department of fiction, does standardization do real harm. An appreciation by the publishers that a greater profit might be derived from selling a hundred thousand copies at one dollar than from disposing of three thousand at three dollars and a half might assist materially in alleviating the present distress...
...English language. They received in reply such words as truth, loyalty, faith, and patriotism. However, the Times did not question Harvard professors. There now appears Mr. Dewey's book. He based his study upon 100,000 words of connected matter gathered from newspapers all over the country, from modern fiction, modern American speeches, business and personal correspondence, religious English, popular scientific English, modern special articles, magazine editorial English, the Saturday Evening Post and the Literary Digest. It appears from Mr. Dewey's tabulations that the word "the" is the most frequently used word in the language, there being...