Word: referse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the near approach of the Tercentenary and the almost hourly use of the word in faculty circles, one thorny problem arises. It appears that the director of the Tercentenary, when speaking of the celebration which he is planing, always refers to it as the tur-sen-te-na-ri...
On the other hand the official historian of the celebration when speaking of the anniversary always refers to it as the tur-sen-te-na-ri, with the accent on the "te," the "e" being pronounced as in "event." It's all a question of penults and ante-penults, and...
To those who think a Harvard biddie is a meek, Maude Adams wisp of a woman who glides unseen and unheard through the monastic suites with pail and dustup, the life of one Crimson editor will seem a complete enigma. Mrs G. . . . to whom he wistfully refers as "the woman...
Childless and divorced, George II, protege of British George V, was reported to have in mind seating beside himself on the Throne of Greece his sister Helen, the gracious royal female for whom King George & Queen Mary have most sympathy. The language in which George V invariably refers to how...
Reader Nunnally Johnson refers to the Los Angeles Times's "singlehanded fight to persuade the world that the name is Hoover, not Boulder, Dam" [TIME. Oct. 21]. The fight is not single-handed for the Chicago Daily News does the same thing. It may be a coincidence, but Frank...