Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refer of course to the new and improved method of selecting the Ivy Orator. It is my understanding that the Ivy Orator is the man chosen for his nimble wit who injects the spirit of jolly good fun into the otherwise rather funereal Commencement proceedings. In the past this office was filled by popular vote, but last year it was decided to except it from the general rule of Class Day offices, presumably to ensure better orations...
Although I am, like I guess millions of others, a devoted reader of TIME-budgeting my leisure to read it first on Friday each week-I object definitely to your language in TIME, March 16. On p. 34 you refer to the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War as "a coalition of female societies." Your editors should certainly know that it is no such thing. It is a committee made up of eleven national women's organizations . . . functioning energetically throughout these...
Replied Steel, wholly unembarrassed: "No, Communism has not been achieved in the Soviet Union so far. It is not easy. But your term 'State Socialism' is not exact. Many people refer to a condition as State Socialism when a considerable amount of national wealth passes to government ownership, sometimes for military advantage, even though the majority of wealth remains in private hands...
...Minister) was said to have been going over with the Cabinet the speech he subsequently made in the House of Commons upon the accession of King Edward VIII. Afterward Mr. Baldwin's secretary gathered up the manuscript and observed a marginal note by the Prime Minister, ''Refer again...
...staff scrutinized its wholly innocuous phrases, wondering what the P. M. could possibly have thought might be indiscreet or dangerous. This labor having been completed, it turned out next morning that God-fearing Orator Baldwin had meant to remind himself by his marginal note to: "Refer again to Almighty...