Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor, untrue in fact, in reference to the solvency or derogatory to the financial condition of any National or State bank . or other financial institution in this Commonwealth . . . shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 and by imprisonment at hard labor for a term not to exceed five years...
...Soviet Economic Base. Foreign money needed to pay for this was got by selling every kind of Russian product abroad at prices exactly low enough to make the sales quick-i. e., "dumping prices." Proudly last week the Gosplan pointed out to Dr. Bogen that repayment of the short-term debts incurred to finance the First Five-Year-Plan has now almost been completed; Bolshevik credit has been sufficiently established to finance additional imports of machinery from Britain, Germany and Czechoslovakia at longterm; and, since there is now less need for the Soviet Union to dump and sell frantically abroad...
Between now and the date of the Crown Princess' marriage, probably in December, Juliana, 27, and Benno, 25, will busy themselves completing an economic study of The Netherlands on which they have been working in recent months. In the best sense of the term, Prince Bernhard is a first generation "mama's boy" and Crown Princess Juliana is a second generation "mama's girl," her mother Queen Wilhelmina having been reared and dominated by the late autocratic Queen Emma of The Netherlands (TIME, Aug. 6, 1928). Normal court usage would have been for the Crown Princess...
...Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed as Spanish in origin, on H. L. Mencken's authority, is the U. S. poker term ante...
...habit of twisting familiar English words into new meanings. Inventive John Adams first used appreciation to mean an increase in value. Inventive George Washington introduced administration in its U. S. political sense in his 1796 Farewell Address, first used average as a verb, first used the term back country. Since then back has been firmly imbedded as an adjective in such U. S. phrases as back taxes, back pay, back number, back talk, backhouse. Likewise inventive was Mark Twain who introduced far along and well along, meaning advanced. The phrase get along appeared in 1830, awful in the sense...