Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high plateau, equidistant between Sydney and Melbourne, the new capital of Australia has risen, after six years of labor by 3,000 men and more than a decade of intensive planning. Australians, who number less than six million, pronounced last week, with a sense of awful achievement the name of their new Federal Capital, "CANBERRA...
...Name all the Gods, and in their name I tell you France must help me-must!" Thus, at Peking, to a French correspondent, thundered last week the great barbaric War Lord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin. Thumping a table top with the hilt of his sword, Chang continued: "The advance of the Chinese Nationalists northward from Shanghai against me (TIME, March 28 et seq.) is of international importance. If Bolshevism triumphs in China, it will triumph throughout the world. The Great Powers must help me to push the Nationalists back, South of the Yangtze River. Then I will treat with...
...Christian church to which the community has a right to look for enlightened spiritual guidance are scrambling to exploit childhood in the hope of profits as illicit, of their kind, as any ever wrung by a conscienceless manufacturer from the labor of children at the loom. In the name of evangelism - that sacred word that has been defiled so often that it is at last almost a common butt - this horrible thing is being done." Readers wondered what the Christian Century was driving at. The author of the piece quickly made it clear that he was discussing the case...
...young matchflicker who had undone him, but he detected no anti-Fascist plot. Not so the Roman press. There, where Fascist de Pinedo is regarded as a fit first mate for Christopher Columbus, headlines snarled: "VILE CRIME AGAINST FASCISM," "ODIOUS ACT OF ANTI-FASCISTS." A villain was even named by name, one Vacirca, an exile. Proudly piped Il Piccolo: "STRONG WILL OF MUSSOLINI WILL CONTINUE FLIGHT." Commander de Pinedo proceeded to Los Angeles (and doubtless to Hollywood), to wait...
...time. Many men have forgotten Joseph Lister's work in antisepsis. Few now know the meaning of "to listerize" and of "listerism," words brought into the language as a tribute to him. Were it not for the Lambert Pharmacal Co.'s broadcasting of Listerine (aromatic antiseptic), his name would have disappeared altogether from the colloquial tongue...