Word: purport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because of the impossibility of an exact definition of what constitutes unemployment, no figures which purport to estimate the total unemployed in the nation can be even approximately accurate...
According to its title-page, its purport: "Designed to Give, in Complete and Accurate Statements, in the Light of the Most Recent Advances in Knowledge, in the Readiest Form lor Popular Use, the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meaning, and Etymology of All the Words, and the Meaning of Idiomatic Phrases, in the Speech and Literature of the English-Speaking Peoples...
Barbara Stanwyck got three men and made them all miserable. Joan Crawford only corralled two, but then one was Harvard '06 and the other Yale '26. Perhaps it evens up. The general purport of the two features at the University is that this is no longer a man's world. They were done wrong--and they liked...
...only welcome that the news of a new organization to be called the Harvard Forum can expect from the undergraduate body is a skillfully biting reference to the Liberal Club, the Inquiry, the Model League of Nations and the numerous other groups which purport to furnish a similar opportunity...
...skipped through a back door and escaped the police cordon in a car bearing an Augsburg license plate. Squads of mounted police clattered up to St. Matthew's Church, but the Bishop was already inside and in his pulpit. Few paid attention to what he actually said. The purport of the sermon was clear enough, a protest against government interference in religion. One phrase stuck. "Our church has been violated!" cried Bishop Hans Meisser...