Word: reference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In your July 26 number, you refer to Mrs. Ferguson as "Governess." Mr. Webster says: "governess-a lady who trains and instructs children, or an instructress." He makes no reference to a lady charged with the duties of a governor. Neither does the constitution of any state provide for the office of "Governess." SAM B. MANES...
...last few issues of TIME, these words, which I cannot find in my Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, have been used. By the context of sentences, I can guess at their meanings. Will you kindly define them, either by letter, or in TIME, or refer me to the dictionary used in your editorial rooms...
...perceived that while "evolution" has become anathema among good Baptists, the same flower of evil, though by another name, would smell but half as poisonous. So by administrative fiat it was decreed, and last week Manhattan publishers admitted, that biology textbooks, intended for use among God-fearing Texans, should refer to mankind's "development" and other phases of the ape-to-man theory should be toned down, by deletion or other euphemisms. Thus, 28 pages of a biology text by Truman Moon of Littletown (N. Y.) High School were deleted in toto, and to save argument Author Moon...
Your excessive use of footnotes seems to me to be in rather bad taste and tiresome. There were nineteen in your last issue. Is it not better style to include such matter in the articles to which they refer, even in parenthesis...
...third paragraph you speak of Bolivar liberating Central America. This allusion certainly would create a misconception in the mind of anyone not familiar with Spanish-American history. As the only part of Central America, properly socalled, liberated by Bolivar was the Republic of Panama you could hardly refer to him in that manner...