Word: righting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hansen: That is right...
Salutes. Only U. S. sponsor with the right to mention the King & Queen commercially was Canada Dry, by appointment purveyor of drinking water (60 gallons each day) to the Royal party...
...Christian physicians of both sexes," in its Sunday schools. The Synod shelved the embarrassing question for a twelvemonth. Last week, in its annual convention in Albany, it heard from a Lutheran layman, Dr. G. A. Schnepel, that "sex is as clean as the stars if it is handled right." From a Lutheran pastor, Rev. Paul Andrew Kirsch, it heard that sex education has been "overemphasized and overpublicized." The Synod decided to keep sex out of Sunday School, leave sex education to Lutheran parents...
Last year Utopian Economist Stuart Chase, having discovered the 16-year-old science of semantics (the study of meanings), rushed off to write a book, The Tyranny of Words, whose point was in substance that if everybody used the right words, all misunderstandings and muddled thinking would evaporate and many of the world's ills would be cured. Last week Stuart Chase was again discovered playing his word game...
...Chief Monopoly Investigator Thomas C. Blaisdell Jr., hastening to deny that it had coached its witnesses to use Mr. Chase's words, referred to the record to show that Monopoly Witnesses Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. and John W. Barriger III had violated Mr. Chase's advice right and left...