Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Oct. 25, 1937, under "Miscellany" you have an article entitled "Gourmet" and you tell of a Harvard freshman who ate prodigiously. A gourmet is an epicure. The term you wanted is gourmand...
...cover and Southern football write-up in TIME, Oct. 25 were most gratefully received...
...your issue of Oct. 25, on p. 41, col. 3, a clear implication, if not a direct statement, is made to the effect that indirect lighting was invented in Germany by Bauhaus workmen...
Considering the state that this nation and the world is in today and the fact that Mr. Landon was discussing national and international problems in his speech of Oct. 19, it seemed very petty and inconsequential to refer to his pronunciation in the reporting of that speech (TIME, Nov. 1). But since General Johnson and TIME have begun it: Does it sound any worse for Mr. Landon to mispronounce the word "Roosevelt" than for Mr. Roosevelt to mispronounce the word "government," a word which he uses continually in his "fireside chats" and invariably pronounces "govermunt;" for Mr. Landon...
...partisan primaries last month Maurice Sugar, counsel to the United Automobile Workers, and Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W. vice president and hero of the Ford "Battle of the Overpass." both placed among the first nine of the 18 councilmanic candidates named for the run-off election (TIME, Oct. 18). Three other U. A. W. candidates earned places on the councilmanic ballot...