Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comedy of Ignorance. Bewildered was Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace. He knew that no pipsqueak hoarding could clean out the much greater involuntary hoards of farm commodities which he has long tried to dispose of. At week's end, after columnists and editorial writers had failed to shout down the buying rush, he slouched up to the microphone and over a nationwide network called a halt: "Since last Monday," he said, "housewives have been conducting runs on grocery stores in the same manner as depositors used to conduct runs on banks...
...paranoiac for their wellbeing. He mentioned, without naming, "a leading American research physician, recently returned from Germany, who tells me that a psychiatrist is in almost constant touch with the Fuhrer . . . that his Excellency suffers from paranoid manic-depression. ... It may be today that power does not so much corrupt as that the process of acquiring it maddens." Dr. Steinmetz also found paranoid symptoms in the "Moral Rearmament" movement engendered by Buchmanism...
High Grade Rail bonds were sold mostly by private investors. In the two days before Britain and France declared war (before stocks really boomed), the Dow-Jones average for high-grades fell off 1.81 points. Afterwards they lost little or nothing. Much the same was the performance of high-grade industrial and utility bonds...
...part of military technology, but physicists who can split atoms have a bundle of special knowledge and special tricks with apparatus which military and naval technologists can use. From both London and Paris last week scientific laboratories were being moved to hideouts in the country. There was much secrecy about which scientists would do what, but the liaison between scientists and war was clear...
...basic and 96,000 derivative terms in an unabridged dictionary, a total of 157,000 words; bright students could recognize 190,000. Dr. Seashore pointed out that in the days of Shakespeare (whose working vocabulary has been given by scholars as 15,000 words) the English language was much smaller than...