Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maybe I am behind the times, for I have been in England for the past six months and have not been able to keep up with the changes being made in the American language. Is it now correct to added to form the past tense of the verbs put, cut, burst, and cast...
...unique idea of teaching while you learn, combined with social service work, has been put into effect by the Phillips Brooks House "undergraduate faculty." Last year, the faculty's first, fifty students taught an equal number of high school boys from the lower income brackets subjects they were studying themselves...
...golden plates in a cave near Palmyra. With them would be found a code key, or Urim and Thummim. Four years later, Joe, a giant weighing almost 200, began translating the plates.* He dictated to a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery. God, said Joe, had revealed that Cowdery was to put the revelations into fit English. To a prosperous farmer named Harris he transmitted God's revelation that he was to back their publication. (Meanwhile he had convinced a pretty, standoffish girl named Emma that God said she was to marry...
Late last May the Federal Communications Commission terminated the experimental status of U. S. international shortwave radio broadcasting, put it on a commercial footing, by empowering it to sell air time to advertisers. This was the order that raised such a ruckus because of a censorious-sounding rider clause cautioning broadcasters that international programs must be designed to promote international good will. That part of the FCC order has since been suspended, pending hearings on it. But the official changeover of the stations themselves to commercial operating bases was last week in full swing...
...told him, "a broken heart is nothing but a bad digestion") wrote Caroline saying: "Correct your vanity which has be come ridiculous . . . and leave me in peace." Caroline had convulsions for a fortnight. She offered herself to any young man who would fight a duel with Byron. She put new livery on her footmen with buttons engraved: "Ne crede Byron" ("Do not believe Byron...