Word: synonymously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business is lining up "snap" courses and "easy" professors, is absolutely nil, because the majority of students who come to the Institute do so in order to become engineers in certain definite fields, and not primarily to get a "broad education", which, unfortunately, is in so many cases a synonym for "getting a degree in the easiest possible manner." THE TECH
...groups of atoms which act as chemical units. The vast importance of molecular structure is well illustrated by the case of ozone, which is a modification of oxygen having three atoms in its molecule instead of the ordinary two. In the popular mind "ozone" has long been a synonym for pure and therefore beneficial air. Many a tuberculosis researcher has hoped it would prove helpful for lung treatments. Actually, the triple molecule of ozone is a deadly poison...
Another Congressional neophyte whom the same bill roused to fury was Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex. Youngest of eleven children in the famed family that gave its name to the language as a synonym for all unbranded cattle, he still walks with a cane as the result of his War wounds and flares up, with an eye on the camera, at one mention of the hated name...
...Pronounced as though sneezing, "Dan-tzikhh!" *Not a nonsense word pattern, this sentence becomes clear when it is recalled that in many German minds today "Honor" is a synonym for either "German aggrandizement'' or "honor," whichever suits the context...
...mere "vocal wind" but apt, powerful and profound is "goldplated anarchy," synonym for rugged individualism" [TIME, Sept 10]. Can this be a new rallying cry, a new "Battle Cry of Freedom?" Is this the plain name for that camouflaged something which the diehards fight so tenaciously to hold...