Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S advertising copywriter prudently employed quotation marks around the verb "debauch," thereby earmarking his use of it in a playful holiday spirit, well suited to the mood of vacationists able to see their sights or leave them alone as Subscriber Robinn advises...
German Irony. Since Germany, a disarmed nation, can profit only by the disarmament of her potential foes, the German delegation had every incentive to further the proceedings at Geneva last week and made good use of its opportunities?Herr von Bernstorff declaring, for example, that the German foreign policy "is now completely dominated by the spirit of Locarno...
...centuries of grammatical debate, many an uncomplimentary assertion has been made concerning the use of language. From strict interpreters of style who follow Walter Pater, the English tongue has received an almost Prussian drilling. With the precision of a top sergeant, they have marshalled modifiers to bear down on the sloppy ranks of slang...
...structure in constant use can escape the objection to a memorial that is also a utility, that structure is a church. Harvard needs a new college church and this plan for a war memorial will satisfy that need. But a church invites to reverence and the contemplation of spiritual things; gratitude is an essential element in devotion; the treatment of the memorial chapel, which will form a part of the building, will be impressive and inspiring. This is an utterly different thing from such a utility as a memorial bridge, for instance, over which the multitudes scurry with no time...
...Eliot, who has taught many men many true things, never taught more wisely, nor with a more practical purpose, than he teaches in the use of these words...