Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calling certain poets "poets, poetasters & poeticules," for reasons that TIME'S editors seriously tried to make self-evident, TIME does not feel that it was arbitrarily affixing labels, but responsibly naming names...
Most colorful opposition was maintained by Collis E. Redd, self-styled National Director of the Constitutional Crusaders of America. When he was before the committee, Redd said he represented the interests of the "consumer, the unemployed and the old-age pensioners...
...million or so years, more or less, of man's prehistory from the time of his apelike ancestors, we can now confidently count on discovering his points of origin, the evolution of his physical self, the upgrowth of his cultures, the relative importance of independent invention or of diffusion, and the direction and extent of his movements over the globe." he said...
Last week the Southern Literary Messenger was revived, in format a duplicate of its old self. Dedicated to "a renaissance in Southern literature," its new editor is Richmond-born Frieda Meredith Dietz, 34, who in childhood "listened for the echo" of Poe's footsteps in the old Messenger building, where her father ran a print shop. (Her brother, August Dietz Jr., 36, is publisher...
Merlyn's method of education is to put the Wart through more metamorphoses than a moth ever dreamed of. Ffft! The Wart is a fish, learning self-preservation from a tench and a pike. Presto! He is a hawk, learning bravery. He becomes a snake, learning 20th-century theories of evolution, a badger, learning about adaptation, an owl, learning how trees and stones talk (so slowly that they could be heard only if time passed at the rate of 30 years per minute...