Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the Bloomfield doctrine, Harvard silently agreed with him, and a portion of the rest of the nation did also. But perhaps this was only because they were mistaking certain meanings, meanings often misunderstood in the days of Thomas Committees and Barnes Bills. Perhaps these people defined such phrases as "fuzzy-minded" and "American" in certain ways, and thought they knew which phrase to apply to whom. But the word now is that Newman's supporters are wrong about their adjectives. They have been caught napping, and while they have slept, these phrases and other outmoded expressions such as "academic...
...phrase coined by oldtime cowboys to describe a storm that turned them blue with cold...
...When the lines were drawn, the temper of both sides erupted in all the usual outlets of public opinion--newspaper columns, speeches, meetings, petitions, and floods of letters to the authorities. The pros and cons were divided into what Dos Passes called "Two Nations," and Professor Joughin uses this phrase as a title. It is interesting to note that the popular antipathy to Sacco and Vanzetti decreased roughly in proportion to the increase in distance from New England. In New York and Paris thousands of sympathizers rioted in the streets, but in Boston the fear of radicalism and the belief...
Another thing they laugh at is the familiar phrase, "irreplaceable topsoil." Topsoil should certainly be cherished and protected, the soil men say, but it is not irreplaceable. In 1937, a U.S. Government experiment station skinned ten inches of soil off half an acre of virgin Ohio grassland, leaving nothing but the yellow subsoil. Corn planted on an untreated strip of this poor stuff produced no crop at all. But other strips were nursed along with fertilizer and crop rotations. During the sixth season, the best strip of man-made topsoil produced 86 bushels of corn an acre, more than twice...
...excellent speaker. In listening to Dewey, it is impossible to forget that he once considered a singing career rather than the law. His voice climbs up and down the baritone register with perfect confidence; he knows which way his voice should go on every phrase and he never stumbles over difficult word combinations. He has gotten over the tight, diction-teacher quality his voice had four years ago and he now speaks freely and easily...