Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, shiver my timbers! The Lucky Strike ad appearing on the back of last week's TIME (Sept. 7), I mean...
...American inventiveness, coupled with the strange and rich conditions which faced pioneers on the frontier," explains Lexicographer Craigie, accounts for the U. S. habit of twisting familiar English words into new meanings. Inventive John Adams first used appreciation to mean an increase in value. Inventive George Washington introduced administration in its U. S. political sense in his 1796 Farewell Address, first used average as a verb, first used the term back country. Since then back has been firmly imbedded as an adjective in such U. S. phrases as back taxes, back pay, back number, back talk, backhouse. Likewise inventive...
...glance at the Teachers' Oath legislation, for instance, shows what can happen when newspapers start blasting free education. Without the agitation of Hearst papers throughout the land a mean, suspicious, and scurillous attack on the teaching profesion might never have occurred. The utter vacuity of the oath does not matter. What we have is a potent group of papers attempting to gag discussion of controversial subjects by teachers, but demanding that very privilege and power for itself alone...
...always very difficult to know what is happening right under your own nose. Those who have over participated in battle will know what I mean. You hear a lot of noise and see a lot of people do this and that and t'other things, but you have to wait for the newspapers from home to find out what really took place. There is therefore no use my trying to play the prophet, but I am under the impression that we are living in an age when Niotzsche's far-famed "revaluation of all values" is rapidly becoming a concrete...
...fresh commonsense, it is these boys of the Great Aloofness who will have to pick up the pieces and start the work of reconstruction. I don't want to get too involved in my flowery tirade, but those who have ears to hear will undoubtedly know what I mean...