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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through only half the "U's" a rich supply with only a few in use. A little digging has given us, for example, "peduncles" in a press despatch referring to the space between two semi-circles side by side. A popular novelist unearthed "carapace" to give us one more synonym for "shell". Kipling, Conrad, and Meredith knew the value of the "mot juste" and have forced their readers to learn the value of the dictionary. When one starts out to enrich the vocabulary in this way the possibilities are limitless. See how a little diligence can improve the usual novel...
...coach in 1908 and in the eight years that he held the position Harvard won 64 games out of 77, five games ending in a tie. He devised and established at Cambridge the most dangerous combination of strategy and strength in American football. The " Haughton system " is virtually a synonym for victory. Since 1916, he has acted in an advisory capacity to Head Coach Bob Fischer...
...life and character of Jesse James, Civil War guerrilla and highwayman, whose dashing bank raids are now so much affected. James was shot from behind by a comrade, Bob Ford, as he lay concealed in his hiding place. The American public was angered and the slayer became the synonym for treachery and ingratitude...
...Indeed, it is a sign of the confusion in American thought to note the disrepute into which the word "tradition" has fallen. It is just because Harvard is traditional in its point of view that it is misunderstood, and often deliberately so, by Americans. Tradition to many is a synonym for Reaction; and yet the tradition of Harvard has always been liberal. From the days of the bitter church controversies in the early nineteenth century, through the recent war, Harvard has stood for Liberalism in a much more truthful way than many of the great or small colleges that profess...
...must be probed to the bone. It will be. But the Congress must apply the probe. Mr. Daniels has been tried and found wanting. After the fourth of next March he will be chiefly remembered in the Navy for his contribution to its slang of a new synonym for a cunning falsehood. For on every man-of-war and at every shore station today, officers and men know that to tell a "Daniels" is to tell a falsehood with such cunning as to stand a good chance of not being caught. Boston Transcript...