Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does not take supernatural intuition to detect him. He answers questions like a robot, not thinking for himself, but speaking words put into his mouth. He uses cliches like the "psychology of the business man"--Wolff's contribution to Economics A--until the grader, coming across it for the twentieth time, cannot help but see its origin. And cannot help but grade accordingly...
...Ameddican"-born wife having consistently put her foot in her mouth* (TIME, May 22), the moose-tall British Ambassador to the U. S. last week decided to take matters in his own large hands At the suggestion of easygoing, democratic bir Willmott Lewis, correspondent of the London Times, he did something he hadn't previously found necessary in his 62 years: called a press conference...
...four acceptances (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark) and four rejections (The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland). None of these acceptances or rejections, however, held anything like the importance of a pact-signing that took place in Berlin early this week. There Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop put their names to a ten-year treaty which seemed to outsiders not so much a pact of non-aggression as one of aggression...
...only weapon the Japanese have been using. Japanese military and naval spokesmen have "predicted" that Japan would soon find it "necessary" to send her marines into the Shanghai International Settlement to stamp out anti-Japanese "terrorism."* Flushed by their small but solid victory at Amoy, the three Western countries put on at Shanghai a joint demonstration of just what resistance Japan would meet in the Settlement should her armed forces try to move...
From the Morgan treasures, energetic Librarian Bell da Costa Greene put on show eye-catching examples in all the fields in which the Library is preeminent. Oij view was a Gutenberg Bible, one of the first printed with movable type (see p. 30). There were some 60 illuminated books and manuscripts, opulent and glowing psalters, gospels, books of hours. There were a series of Rembrandt etchings, some prints showing the development of the mezzotint, many a print and drawing by the great masters. There were letters and manuscripts galore-Milton, Cromwell, Swift, Dickens, Kipling...