Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parodies of TIME writing usually begin like "Outraged was snaggletoothed, bilious, ambidextrous Herman Zilch ..." But nowadays TIME editors do not think highly of backward syntax except as an occasional way of emphasizing a point. Spacesaving sometimes forces us to use a string of adjectives to give a thumbnail sketch, but we prefer nouns that make adjectives unnecessary...
Legs & Lefties. The only player who holds an edge over the little Giant as a right fielder is the mighty George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, whose big bat always obscured his prowess afield. But at bat and in the field, 173-lb. Mel gives the 215-lb. Bambino a good...
...timers who do not know how much its teaching has been liberalized in recent years. Most departments keep well up on civilian programs in teaching, make many innovations of their own. The out standing example is the department of economics, government and history, headed by brilliant Colonel Herman Beukema (pronounced Bew'-kuma). In the touchy field of international relations, he encourages both instructors and students to speak their opinions freely. His textbooks are kept so thoroughly updated that the new est (covering events up to January 1, 1945) are still unbound...
Aroused by Friedrich A. Hayek's controversial "Read to Serfdom," which he brands an "filled with every fallacy known brands an "filled with every fallacy known to the study of logic," Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, announces that he is writing a "Road to Reaction" as an answer to what he considers "dangerous and deceptive" reasoning...
...least one crystal ball is unclouded. Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, predicted in June, 1944, shortly after D-Day, that the war in Europe would end when the Russian armies had taken Breslau, in German Silesia. Last January he weakened his prediction by saying that Breslau would fall late in February...