Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YOUR OCT. 23 ISSUE TIME CALLS ROGER BABSON VENERABLE. THIS WILL MAKE OUR GREAT AND GOOD PATRON ANGRY FOR WEBSTER'S SAYS THE USE OF THE WORD VENERABLE GENERALLY IMPLIES ADVANCED AGE. MR. BABSON IS ONLY 64 AND IF YOU COULD SEE HIM RIDE WITH US WEBBER GIRLS YOU WOULD NOT CALL HIM VENERABLE. IF YOUR EDITORS USED VENERABLE IN THE SENSE OF BEING RENDERED SACRED BY RELIGIOUS HISTORIC OR OTHER ASSOCIATIONS WE WILL GLADLY WITHDRAW OUR OBJECTION FOR MR. BABSON's LIFELONG INTERESTS AND GOLDEN RULE PHILOSOPHY CERTAINLY ENTITLE HIM TO QUALIFY UNDER THIS LATTER ETYMOLOGY...
...which seems to be going the rounds that our Government is paying an exorbitant rental for the land where our World War dead are buried in France. If the rent is not paid promptly, so the story goes, France has threatened to get rid of the bodies by the use of quicklime...
...Germans and colored folk like their sermons long" (TIME, Oct. 16). Let me say, first, that I like your usual use of similes, metaphors, and adjectives and it is probably true that a great many colored folk like this type of sermon. But in a world sick with prejudice, I hate to have TIME help prejudice along in one of our most pressing domestic problems. To generalize upon the colored people, putting them alongside of Hitler and the Germans ... is not a way to work for democracy...
...North Atlantic Ocean; and anywhere in the other world waters. The President may declare any region a combat area-which would automatically ban U. S. citizens, ships, planes from trespassing in that area. Minor provisions bar alien seamen from U. S. entry, mounted arms on U. S. merchant vessels, use of the U. S. flag by foreign ships. Penalties for major infractions: $50,000 fine, five years in jail or both; for minor $10,000 fine, two years in jail or both...
Able diplomatist that he is, His Holiness had foreseen that the Allies would fight. He had been "convinced that the use of force on one side would be answered by recourse to arms on the other." More important, devout Catholic that he is, he knew which side he was for, and, unlike his predecessors during War I, said...