Word: jargoning
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...correct TIME'S sloppy work on the Leviathan's obituary: in sea jargon a voyage is a round trip, and Leviathan, as far as available records show, made 161 round trips as an American ship. Before that, as the Vaterland, she went across the Atlantic seven times. Last fortnight she completed her 330th crossing, which will be no round trip...
...power to create a state of uncertainty in which no businessman or investor will incur risk is vested in the President of the United States. Mr. Roosevelt is the first President who thought fit to use that power. Every ounce of it was applied. Neither graphs, nor economic jargon, nor statistics are required to show how Mr. Roosevelt made the depression which should always bear his name. He created it by methods which were as direct as they were effective...
...Center's classes came an international banker because he had difficulty reading financial pages and stock tables, an actor who could not read his lines, an engineer who could read nothing but his technical jargon; a young reading-cripple with a high I. Q., who walked in. sat down and calmly announced: "I am a problem child. I must not be excited." After a few weeks of training the banker could get through his financial pages, the engineer could read 550 words a minute of general literature, a secretary who had never read a book of her own accord...
...Although Kaiser Wilhelm II made a great show of himself as The All-Highest War Lord, historians generally consider Albert of the Belgians the only King who during the War actually directed his armies on the Western Front. To Marshal Joffre years afterward, His Majesty confessed that the expert jargon of strategists and tacticians. had sometimes proved trying. "I listened to the generals and it seemed to me a great responsibility to decide between their different plans," said King Albert, "so I would just pick out the one that I thought made the most sense." Aged only 13, Crown Prince...
...been down more than 500 coal mines. His first novel (Hatter's Castle; TIME, July 20. 1931), a gloomy lengthy melodrama, was a surprise best seller. In neither of his professions has Dr. Cronin paid much attention to the rules. To the lay reader the "cut-shop" (medical jargon ) in The Citadel may seem tedious and overdone: but to many The Citadel will appeal as a spunky onslaught on an unco-sacrosanct stronghold. For "the bogus orf Harley-street" Dr. Cronin reserves his heaviest guns. Writing in London's Daily Express after the book's publication...