Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME adds nothing but confusion to a Presidential metaphor when, in commenting on F.D.R.'s characterization of U.S. Martinique victory as a "base on balls," it adds: "But many a pop bottle was still coming Pitcher Roosevelt...
Franklin Roosevelt, who dearly loves a baseball metaphor, came up with one of his choicest. In Martinique, pro-Vichy Admiral Georges Robert had given way to anti-Vichy Henri-Etienne Hoppenot. Said the President: We waited it out and we got a base on balls...
...strange, the myriad languages still as hard to learn. They deceive themselves who say this globe has shrunk to a convenient size, to a neighborhood whose men can greet each other at corners and whose women can borrow butter across the fence. The truth has been lost in a metaphor...
...minutes that Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke last week, the little grove of microphones on the desk before him were the ears of the whole world: of 65 millions of U.S. citizens, many more millions across the oceans. Never before had the metaphor of "fireside chat" seemed so inadequate...
Second Prize of $200 to Harry D. Feltenstein Jr. '41, of St. Joseph, Mo., for an essay entitled "The Metaphor Roots of the Symbol...