Word: mold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rivers of ink spurted from Geneva last week as into action sprang charming Mme Geneviève Tabouis, brightest spirit among that sector of correspondents who feel that they can mold a better world by twisting every story to the advantage of the League of Nations. They felt with an honest, apostolic zeal that they must kill "The Deal" by which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain and Premier Pierre Laval of France had undertaken to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia at the latter's expense. Before the terms were officially known Mme Tabouis of Paris...
When historical facts form a tale which stimulates the imagination, some new light has been shed on the forces which mold men. Such a story is "Mutiny on the Bounty." At many moments we have felt that we knew Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian far better than most of our friends...
...Egyptians, the Romans, and employed even today, in making all good glassware. The glass is made of silica, which is melted in a hot furnace. When it is molten, a hollow iron tube is dipped into it, a globule drawn out and then blown to the proper size. A mold is used to give it the desired shape or else sticks dipped into water may be used to press it into shape...
Most curious thing about the Gannett papers is that they follow no set mold, have no common editorial or typographical formula. Each was a growing concern when Publisher Gannett bought it (average age: 75 years). Each is permitted to continue virtually without interference as an individual newspaper reflecting local conditions and sentiment. Only common denominator of the Gannett papers is that each aims to be as clean, honest and wholesome as its Unitarian publisher...
Unlike the classicals, he substitutes assonance for end time. Since almost every possible time has been used already, he argues, the added freedom makes for freshness. Since the mold of sonnet, both in form and rhythm is fixed in his mind, he opens automatically when he has composed 14 lines...