Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mere "women" and should have no place in a magazine for the home, school and family, such as TIME. "Brazen" is the good old fashioned adjective which I would unhesitatingly apply to the picture of the "Dolly" or Deutsch sisters with which you illustrate the story to which I object. No doubt you are right that they seem "worth while" to old King Christian of Denmark, but why give such "women" any place in TIME...
Nowadays a mystery play is heralded by any title which suggests the horrible. Each plot contains an animal more terrible than the last. Bats, spiders, gorillas have been successful in providing thrills, and to them is added the octopus, the slimy vandal of the underseas. As the object of these beasts is to freeze the audience into that state of terror which precedes death and renders impossible thought, more and more frightful titles may be daily expected. Pithicanthropus erectus may soon overawe the spectators, or perhaps a pterodactyle; at the denouement they could, with customary plausibility, be found traveling salesmen...
...bill pays more attention to the power project, although the plant was originally planned for its nitrate development. Farm aid is now more logically a secondary factor and the power the primary object. Such a power centre is needed in the middle west and if the Senate puts the bill through it will be seizing an opportunity to utilize a white elephant by making him earn his living...
...certain refreshing willingness to learn all too frequently lacking in teachers. Whether or not the instructor can learn something in this way is still an open question, if one may judge from the "Suggestion Book of History I" on the Lower Reading Room. Students dislike outside reading. They object to finding New Lecture Hall locked too early. They are disturbed at being conspicuous targets for an angry "Sit down!" They prefer cheerful attendants to scowling ones...
...newspapers. Since Jan. 1, the Western Union Telegraph Co. has been prohibiting the use of cablese by press associations and newspapers. This cablese, with its word contractions, its elaborate prefixes and suffixes, had nearly become a code; hence, the ban. The Western Union Telegraph Co. does not object to skeletonized cables, so long as they confine themselves to dictionary words...