Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the second drink of bourbon, a Southerner is apt to start talking about those awful freight rates. The subject is no joke in the South. For Southerners claim, and with rebel yells, that discriminatory freight rates have stunted their economic growth and made them mere colonials of the imperial East...
...Craned Neck. In London next day, many another joyful, loyal subject felt the same. It was spring, the Royal Family were home again, and it was the tenth anniversary of the coronation as well. London was in holiday mood. The travelers had spent one last night aboard the Vanguard in Portsmouth (early-rising dockyard workers scrupulously observed a zone of silence about the ship so the family could sleep until 8 a.m.), but by 9 in the morning the London crowds had already begun to gather at Buckingham Palace, munching sandwiches on the curbs. Drab Government buildings were decked with...
...Columbia bacteriologists got to thinking about a very nasty subject: bacterial warfare. They decided that the U.S. Government ought to know what they were thinking, so they wrote it all down in a 40,000-word paper. That was early in 1942; the authors were subsequently hired by the Government's ultra-secret biological warfare section. Even though it was written without access to Washington's secret information, the paper looked like much too thorough an estimate of the possibilities of bacterial warfare for general circulation in wartime...
...unmarried mother, a perennial subject for the balladeer, is also one of society's concerns. Last week a U.S. psychiatrist was worrying about the unmarried mother's equally prevalent opposite number: the unmarried father...
...tenets that . . . the subject-matter and the imagery of poetry should be ... related to the life of a modern man or woman; that we were to seek the non-poetic . . . and words and phrases which had not been used in poetry before." In this effort "the study of Milton could be no help; it was only a hindrance...