Word: parently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increases (which had been vitiated by increased living costs). During the war, he had been a true and acknowledged friend of the U.S. But, under him, politics had been as abstract as a Picasso canvas. When, according to current legend, a prattling infant said, "Daddy, what are elections?" the parent answered, "Ask your grandfather...
...Losing Race. In time the first secret of the Weser became apparent. Its parent plant was producing V-weapons. But it also manufactured cyclotrons for atomic experimentation. As the Allies bombed German laboratories, the Weser shipped new cyclotrons to secret destinations in the Reich where Hitler's scientists were running a losing race with history. At least three cyclotrons were shipped in the last year and a half...
...Froebel High School, Gary, Ind., which Negroes have attended for 30 years, 500 white boys & girls struck for a Jim Crow school. After ten days, their numbers had swelled to over 800. The Gary school board ordered "legal action" against parents of all strikers, dismissal of any striker 16 or over. Said the Gary Parent-Teachers Association: "We feel ashamed. . . . [The strike is] the work of some unknown organizers of racial hatred...
...mind behind the loudspeakers is R. Russell Porter's, radio director of Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia. He wanted to do something to improve Kansas' remote rural schools. He got free time from a local station, but discovered that most rural schools had no radios. Since then Parent-Teacher Associations and similar groups have rounded up receivers, finding battery sets when a school lacked electricity. Five stations gave free time. If the idea pans out, Kansas scholars may have more such classes-but no one expects that an announcer will ever replace the teacher...
Author Mencken first intended The American Language: Supplement I to be a small addition to his American Language, soon discovered that his mass of new material had outgrown the parent volume. Many of Supplement I's 739 pages are devoted simply to supporting the thesis of The American Language, i.e., U.S. speech-ways have grown so powerful that they are rapidly reducing to a dialect "the ancient and lovely but now somewhat rheumy language of the British Isles." Readers of the Supplement will find it packed with boisterous Menckenian humor and casual erudition...