Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after he received an LL.D. from New York's Columbia University, former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Aiken County, S.C. high-school graduates that the phrase "you-all" was good English-if it is used as Southerners use it, in the plural. Said Byrnes: "There is nothing which irritates me quite so much as to attend the theater in New York and hear an actor . . . impersonate a Southerner and, in addressing an individual...
...public opinion. But that is precisely what GOP House leaders have achieved, pressed into irresponsibility by their own backward outlook and, more significantly, by the formal contest for control of their Party which looms so close at hand. If the dominant Martin-Taber-Halleck Knutson cabal successfully "guts," to use Senator Vandenberg's expression of yesterday, the ERP endeavor, it will amount to national tragedy. If this is heaped upon the deed of a mangled reciprocal trade agreements program and if it is followed by the further steps which such a high-riding reactionary leadership would surely attempt, the earthquake...
...fall Valpey plans to use the first three and one-half weeks preparing "for the season as a whole," and the last week in special drills for Columbia...
...impounded every Spectro-Chrome in the place. Then they trucked five tons of Ghadiali's instructions, magazines and correspondence to the Camden city incinerator. The FDA has also filed 25 suits to recover other known machines elsewhere, but has no idea how many others are still in use...
...Henry IV. Says Welles: "So much first-rate talent is going in the direction of the literal. I don't even like the word 'documentary.' You can't go on proving that a rusty faucet is rusty and a dirty alley is dirty. They are using the camera as a recording instrument. I want to use it as an instrument of poetry...