Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter about our survey of TIME-reading men (all 1,800,000 of them) moved many of you to compare yourselves smugly, humorously or wistfully with this statistically -average, $7,600-a-year TIME-reader -knowing, in many cases, that an average does not, of course, mean a majority. Here are some excerpts from your letters...
...that the next time we have an international congress of philosophy we'd prefer that they send someone not so crude." Looking like an indignant owl, New York University's Sidney Hook turned his brisk Brooklyn accent against Kolman: "You talk about economic democracy [in Russia]. You mean economic equality. But there is an equality in freedom and equality in slavery...
...flat, Shertok came to the last paragraph, which contained the phrase "Rock of Israel." He started to translate it that way, but met an objection from the girl at the typewriter. Ruth Goldschmidt, an English-born Israeli who heads the official government news agency, said Rock of Israel would mean nothing to non-Jews. She suggested that the phrase "Almighty God" be used. The weary Shertok demurred, for fear of offending the United Workers Party. Miss Goldschmidt, however, won the argument and the English translation of the last paragraph begins "With trust in Almighty God, we set our hand...
...Warsaw last week, a Polish woman stopped before a students' dormitory to ask what all the flags and crowds were about. A fierce young Greek confronted her. "What side are you on?" he demanded. "What do you mean?" she asked...
...progress for Pitcairn to swallow. For one thing, it would mean giving up the old schoolhouse that John Adams, last of the mutineers, had built some 150 years ago. There Adams first taught the islanders to read from the Bounty's Bible, and to write with the worn quill pens from Captain Bligh's desk...