Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy to send a crew of unemployed huskies down into a ditch. More puzzling problems to Harry Hopkins and his Works Progress Administration are unemployed bookkeepers, engineers, accountants. Last week from Washington came word of a unique white-collar project in Philadelphia, which Mr. Hopkins described as of literally unestimable value to the world's aerial and ocean navigators. The project: a complete set of Tables of Computed Altitude and Azimuth...
...English public will fight only on the side it believes to be in the right. In England, Lord Runciman is known for his justice and honesty. His word will be good enough. . . . If it is clear that we, having been attacked, will defend ourselves to the end; and if it is clear that an unprovoked attack will have the same consequences as the attack on Belgium in 1914, then there will be no war. Because even the aggressor in his blindness knows that in such a case he will be crushed...
...British corruption of an Arabic word, "Usabat," meaning band...
Last week Alagoas' unfortunate police received word that the surviving bandits would burn every village in the countryside, massacre the inhabitants, send their heads to headquarters. The message came as a shock, for it was sent by "Corisco," one of the Lamp Post's lieutenants, whom the Government has also killed several times...
Education has never had an authoritative dictionary of its technical terms. Any three educators would haggle themselves silly trying to find a common 15-word definition for frontier thinkers, organismic psychology, transfer of training. Last week, at last, Phi Delta Kappa, 29-year-old professional fraternity of education, announced that it would compile from the best written sources and from the knowledge of its 23,000 members a Dictionary of Education. ΦΔΚ hopes to complete its work in about four years...