Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Here is a queer conflict between the occasion and the persons. The occasion, if you stop to think about it, is bristling with importance. . . . Here were meeting the heads of the two greatest democracies of the world. . . . That makes it something to worry about, to be sure nothing happens that...
Mr. Collins heard nothing after that In his report to his company he wrote "If the Sea Dragon encountered such weather as we did on the night of March 23, and she undoubtedly did, there i small chance that the little craft survived.
Year ago the United Lutheran Synod of New York considered instituting courses in sex education, "by Christian physicians of both sexes," in its Sunday schools. The Synod shelved the embarrassing question for a twelvemonth. Last week, in its annual convention in Albany, it heard from a Lutheran layman, Dr. G...
Last year Utopian Economist Stuart Chase, having discovered the 16-year-old science of semantics (the study of meanings), rushed off to write a book, The Tyranny of Words, whose point was in substance that if everybody used the right words, all misunderstandings and muddled thinking would evaporate and many...
"Savings is a 'good' word, tenderly regarded in the folkways. ... If savings are not invested, they become hoardings, or idle money. . . . Investment is a 'good' word. . . . Hoarding is a 'bad' word. . . . Always remember that one context pleases the layman and the other distresses him...