Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the lead of the Maintenance Department in high literary endeavor, the composers of the House Dining Hall menus produced the phrase "entire wheat bread" for the noonday meal on Thursday...
Striving to avoid monotonous repetition in their daily compositions, the dieticians have coined this phrase to take the place of the more mundane "whole wheat bread," thus following the lead of the Maintenance Department, which earlier in the year labelled the new Sever exit an "egress...
...phrase "military action directed against Germany" refers to Belgium's obligations under the League Covenant to support military sanctions against a state declared an aggressor. European observers opined that delay in concluding the new agreement has been caused by Berlin efforts to edge Belgium away from the League. These failed because, as a price for the Anglo-French release, Belgium had promised to stick by her League commitments...
...greatest movements which the Christian Church has to face, cried the opening preacher, liberal Bishop Parsons (and a persistent stadium echo which parroted him, always a phrase behind), are the Totalitarian State, "a transient affair," and the rise of the underprivileged classes, "born of the gospel of Christ.'' That the latter has often gone astray. said the Bishop, should not blind Christians to the fact of the Kingdom of God "... a free fellowship of the children of God ... in [which] every child of God has worth which transcends any economic order. He is not a mere...
...South are guilty of taking scant notice of the letter "r" and naturally the phrase has come to be spoken as though it were "spittin' image...