Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandfather's pet pastime at dinner was to pick news stories apart. "Mrs. John Jones has been ill for some time" he would read. "What the devil does some time mean?" was his protest. "A week or a year...
...customary understatement was missing. We are not only asked to visualize three distinct divisions of what must have been a confusing accident, but we are expected to do so through the medium of a whop! etc. when the writer has already said there were "three rending crashes." Does he mean that a whop! is a particular type of crash...
...official opinion of the British Government but prepares many of its leading editorials with Government and Palace assistance. Seldom is that fact as frankly admitted as it was last week. Following the blunt announcement of Nazi Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath at Stuttgart fortnight ago, interpreted abroad to mean that the German Government would soon ask diplomatic immunity for three "cultural attaches" to take the place of the three newspaper men recently ousted from Britain as Nazi agents (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.), the London Times ponderously announced that if the new attaches are intended to replace the three German...
...save time and space 1,400 Associated Press newspapers use a logotype, AP, to label AP stories. For nearly 40 years AP has been trying to make its symbol mean as much on newsstories as "sterling" means on silver. Unnoticed though it is by hurried readers, the little logotype can even by its absence make news...
...beat his father-in-law so cruelly that he became permanently deaf. One of the four robbers was killed when one of the two cars overturned. Two were given jail sentences. The fourth suspect disappeared. He was La Verne Moore of Syracuse, N. Y., famed for golf, baseball and mean practical jokes...