Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question, which higher brows than Chase's had dubbed semantics, is: What is the connection between words and reality? Readers who knew their Stuart Chase expected a lively piling up of rough-hewn evidence, the sinister emergence of a nigger, and a whooping pursuit. They were not disappointed. The Tyranny of Words is a typical Stuart Chase book: popular, suggestive, controversial, a racy simplification of a vast problem...
...this word-witchery is to make men's actions also meaningless. Instead of giving souls to trees, modern man, avers Chase, personifies "national honor," "neutrality," "capital," "labor," "corporations." "It would surely be a rollicking sight," he hoots, "to see the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey in pursuit of happiness at a dance hall...
...uninspiring job just for the sake of discipline and something to do may have merit, but life is too short to spend much time postponing the pursuit of a well conceived career...
Then one afternoon a squadron of 40 Japanese bombers and pursuit planes came thundering upriver, proceeded to dump several tons of explosives upon the city, setting large districts afire. Through it all the Soviet pilots remained morosely on the ground beside their planes. Dispatches recorded "acute Chinese disappointment." Correspondents could get no explanation of the Soviet surliness past Chinese censors...
...Japanese planes with chattering ma-chine guns chased China's shrill-voiced, slim-waisted Premier & Generalissimo for 175 miles last week, but at last his sleek U. S. Boeing with a U. S. pilot at the controls outdistanced all pursuit. The Dictator and Mme Chiang were set down in the remote countryside of Kiangsi, according to some reports, Hankow, said others. There were even rumors that in hurriedly quitting Nanking, their abandoned capital, they were lucky to escape not only the Japanese but also Chinese Communists who had plotted to seize the Premier again, as they did when...