Word: verbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called "androtin" from the Greek root andros (man). Dr. McCullagh made a water solution of the same extract, found it acted directly upon the pituitary gland (which androtin does not), and so concluded that he had found a new hormone. He called it "inhibin," from the Latin verb inhibere (to restrain...
...apparently been pained beyond endurance, for he wrote: "Somewhere there cumbers this fair earth with his loathsome presence a man who for the common good should have been destroyed in early childhood. He is the originator of the hideous vulgarism of using 'contact' as a verb-We contacted Mr. Smith.' ... So long as we can meet, get in touch with, make the acquaintance of, be introduced to, call on, interview, or talk to people, there can be no apology for 'contact...
...Parliamentarian of Europe," knew well enough that what Mr. Stimson had called "all the pressure and authority" of the League is not enough to coerce a Great Power like Japan. Also, the Japanese Cabinet was already showing fury at Mr. Stimson's use of the noun "pressure" and the verb "regulate." There was only one smart thing for M. Briand to do: stall. But how? As the Frenchman wracked his agile brain in Geneva, Mr. Stimson provided the thing needed...
...Ashcans." Few days later the meticulous Boston Transcript reprinted the editorial, changed the headline to: "Ashcans Are Ashcans." Observed the Herald Tribune last week: "So they may be-in Boston. In New York they is. But wherever it may be read the Transcript certainly are the Transcript. The singular verb is inadequate to a paper of such imperturbable grammar...
...didn't occur to me when I composed the sentence that it might have a political bearing. It was used solely because it aptly illustrated use of the singular subject and plural verb...