Word: ums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decisions, in a flip-flopping score-um-up at the 147 class, Captain Phil Burnaman managed his second win of the season and just missed his second pin, outpointing M.I.T.'s Hyman, 14 to 10. Burnaman's victory method stood in sharp contrast with that of the other three who won on points...
...began to go awry. Outside the locked iron gates of Augsburg's Rosenau Stadium last week milled an overflow crowd of some 2,000 men-crutch-borne veterans and draftage youngsters. Derisively they barked the familiar German parade ground orders: Achtung. Vorwarts marsch. Rechts urn, links urn, rechts um." Inside the stadium restaurant, another 1,000 jammed crutch-littered tables, guzzling beer from massive mugs and laughing at the youngsters who mock goose-stepped around in paper hats...
...girls they care for have a nickname, too: it is UM (for unmarried mothers). Most UMs are under 20, victims of a lie, or of violence, or possessors of an over-generous nature. One of the most tragic cases in St. Anne's history: a ravished child of eleven who still believed in Santa Claus and carried a rag doll to bed with her each night. For the rest, "we get a girl who has slipped," Sister Winifred says, "but who is trying to do what is right...
Harvard's late famed Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead was far from the conventional absent-minded professor, but he did have occasional verbal lapses. One day he was cautioning a student about a theory of logic. "You must take it with a grain of er . . . um ... ah ..." For almost a minute, Whitehead groped for the word, until the student suggested. "Salt. Professor...
...word for ship, for instance, generally had the ending "um" in the 14th century. The encyclopedia said that this ending was dropped in late runic times, but it did not say how late. So Ohman dropped it, though it really persisted for about 200 years after 1362. The encyclopedia also said that the letter "h" was used in late runic writing. Again, it did not say how late. So Ohman used "h" 200 years "too soon...