Word: referable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your erudite editors and readers have both proved resourceful in coining words. ... I sincerely hope that a name can be suggested which . . . the people of this land and our neighbors south and north will gladly welcome ... to refer to a "native of the United States...
...that after a year and a half of marriage to his American-born Duchess, the Duke of Windsor now calls a dinner jacket a "tux," a wireless a "radio," occasionally emits the word "cute." But he still says "we" when he means himself, still insists that all their friends refer to his wife as "Her Royal Highness." (Their proposed visit to England in March has been indefinitely postponed because of the dispute over her title.) The Duchess he addresses as "My Darling," sometimes "Sweet...
...thing people must learn," said he, "is not to refer to these people as just Indians. It doesn't make sense. Nowhere in Europe can you find as much difference between nations. ..." Lanky, ebullient Director d'Harnoncourt showed the difference in seven cunningly designed rooms: fine basketry and feather-weaving by the Pomos and Paiutes of California and Nevada; weaving and silver work by the Hopis, Navahos, Apaches of the Southwest; bone and tusk carving by the Chinook and other fishermen of the Northwest; magnificent work with buffalo and elk skins by the Sioux, Blackfoot and Crow tribes...
...your report on my debate with Mr. Gannett [TIME, Jan. 23] you refer to "International Paper Company, which once owned stock in Gannett papers. . . ." According to all reports, including that of the Federal Trade Commission, the name of the firm is International Paper & Power Co. I must insist upon this point because, in the course of the debate, Mr. Gannett, too, tried to make a distinction between the Paper and the Power Company, as if they were separate enterprises...
...find their way about the Square. Since a majority of the foreign students take graduate courses, men in each of the graduate schools should be enlisted to help, and the support of the deans of the graduate schools should be secured so that they will immediately refer their foreign students to the Committee. Once they have settled their charges, the activities of the Committee should take a more social turn. Various members of the Faculty might easily be persuaded to entertain the foreign students in small groups along with any natives who were interested in meeting them...