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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...degrees from universities, but nevertheless there is a sound culture in Charlotte. One of the faculty here at Harvard maintains that Ferrisburg has even more. I disagree. If culture is that refined sense of right living which comes with the mellowness and dignity of age, then Charlotte has culture. Verb roots do not thrive on her rock ribbed earth, but something even finer does. For the faces of the people are strong and chiseled. They workship a strong god who made their rocks and yet let them live upon them. Charlotte is a goodly place --though rather cold...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/27/1926 | See Source »

...light two-wheeled carriage for a single horse, typically seating four persons, back to back. "Jaunt" originally referred to the prancing or "jaunting" of the horse, which makes a two-wheeled car jolt and tilt somewhat rakishly. By association the verb "to jaunt" came to mean the taking of a short pleasure ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Irish Jaunt | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...TIME so as to spend time over a TIME acrostic (Jos. A. Blum, Feb. 15 issue.) It is therefore a pity that his effort must be red-penciled. There is no such term as "meti?to be measured" in Latin. The correct Latin form is metiri, this being a verb of the fourth conjugation deponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...verb employed in the statute, "to teach," is susceptible of many interpretations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

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