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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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>Like Paris and Berlin, London is ringed with guns, balloons, and searchlights. The special province of the British is the multiplication of instructive pamphlets with titles as long as Punch captions ( Your gas mask, how to keep it and how to use it; some things you should know if war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Tale of Three Cities | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

"S Plan." Last week's bombings coincided with Parliamentary consideration of a bill to free the police from ordinary legal restraint when tracking down Irish terrorists. Although 66 I.R.A. volunteers have been sentenced to prison, the police have had difficulty making a legal case against men they suspect of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Irish War | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Since the Civil War, most news from Spain has been written from afar, contributed by correspondents who 1) could not get in, 2) could not find out much if they did, 3) did not like what they found out. Last week Carey Longmire, open-eyed correspondent of the Paris New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beware the Cigaret! | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Colgate University's Professor Porter G. Perrin also found a discrepancy between classroom English and the way most people talk, also tried to do something about it last week. His An Index to English* intended "to answer some common questions about English usage and style," makes no bones about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: U. S. English | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

>"If slang expressions are appropriate, they should be used without apology (that is, without quotation marks), and if they are not appropriate, they should not be used." Professor Perrin knows slang when he sees it: to park a car is general English; to park your hat is slang.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: U. S. English | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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