Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifty per cent pray regularly or occasionally; the rest never pray. Those who pray are fewer than those (nearly seven out of ten) who practice such household superstitions as throwing spilled salt over the left shoulder. And many who do pray have merely "taken over a form of words from childhood and are using it still...
...last week by a colorful talk on provisions by Captain McIntosh. All who came to Cambridge fresh from the feminine stronghold of Northampton agree that lectures from regular Navy men are increasing their stock of nautical vocabulary and seafaring lore by leaps and bounds. Now when seen an old salt knocking a piece of bread against the table before eating it we know it is a holdover from the days when weevils made their homes in the provisions before sailors went to Supply Corps schools...
Plump, placid, matronly Mrs. Gertrude Berg scarcely knew what to make of it. The august Princeton University Library wanted to salt away the scripts of her radio show The Goldbergs (TIME, June 23, 1941) as "one of the best serials now being broadcast." In Old Nassau's archives The Goldbergs will find themselves beside such other candidates-for-the-classics as the best of Norman Corwin's scripts, David Loth's Woodrow Wilson, F. van Wyck Mason's Stars...
...Church had largely lost touch with the common people, and congregations were composed mainly of old folk. Young people were increasingly critical of the Church's value. They questioned whether the clergy, to whom the State often assigned the choicest farms in rural areas, were worth their salt. Now all Norway, indeed all Scandinavian Lutheranism, knows the stuff of which Norway's clergy is made. The Church, standing firmly for the dignity of human freedom, has regained its lost prestige. Of the Church's clergymen, only 64 still function under Nazi domination, preach to benches largely deserted...
...Hastings had written the book of the year, The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California. In it he had said: "The most direct route, for the California emigrants, would be to leave the Oregon route, about two hundred miles east from Fort Hall; thence bearing southwest to the Salt Lake; and then continuing down to the Bay of San Francisco." Says DeVoto: "When Lansford Hastings wrote that passage . . . neither he nor anyone else had ever taken the trail here blithely imagined by a real-estate...