Word: viz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polio right after he was picked as the best baseball player in the diocese of Brooklyn. At least 6 feet tall, his body was conspicuously atrophied. To pick an athlete in preference to this boy, or one like him, would be to continue a time-honored American custom, viz., discriminating unfairly against a human being because he could not overcome the crippling effects of disease. Everyone wants to help the poor athlete, but few consider the physically handicapped, than to the athlete! I wonder if those who extol the "sentiment" of school spirit can work up some sentiment...
...readers sounded like an eyewash or a new breakfast food (Oculo, Focal, Imagec, Visray, Telio, Vix). Others sounded like nothing on earth (Lookies, Peeps, Scan, Vudio, Luksee, Eyeviews). The Daily Express thought that a few revealed "outrageous ingenuity" (e.g., Vizema, Rad-E-Eye, C.-U., Look-Hear, Radi-Viz...
...Viz., Harlow ought to cut more ice than Prexy James B. Conant...
Never intended for bobsleds, the Cresta Run is not "a downhill straightaway" [TIME, Jan. 7], but a winding, downhill and very steep course, three-quarters of a mile long, including eleven banked curves, viz: "First Bank," "Curzon," "Thoma," "Rise," "Battledore," "Shuttlecock," "Stream Corner," "Bulpett," "Scylla," "Charybdis," "The Finish." "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" are almost S-shaped...
Britons are given to labeling themselves with strange-sounding titles indicative of their respective towns, viz.: Oxford, Oxonian; Cambridge, Cantabrigian, which are the most famous. There are others throughout Great Britain, often piquant and quaint, like Liverpool, Liverpudlian; Blackpool, Blackpudlian, and perhaps best of all Giggleswick, Giggleswicket...