Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When we enter school for the first time we take a pledge on our word of honor not to indulge in intoxicants and not to go out of the school boundaries without permission. Smoking has nothing to do with the "word of honor" system. It is simply a school rule...
With due respect to them, the good word for your work still stands. WILLIAM G. BENN...
...issue of TIME, April 18 under "Business in Bronzeville," in which my picture occurred, there occurred the use of a phrase that TIME so often uses in connection with articles concerning Colored children namely, "pickaninnies." This word is very objectionable to us as a Race and has been quite embarrassing to me inasmuch as many of our customers and friends have the mistaken idea that I either wrote or dictated the statement as usual he [Joe Louis] was surrounded by admiring pickaninnies and etc. For the benefit of those who may have that idea, will you please print the correction...
...Naziism, which carried him for a time to a German prison camp near noxious marshes, Carl von Ossietsky was aided by rumors that he was about to receive the Nobel Prize, which secured his transfer to a hospital. There the German guards wore him down until he gave his word that even if he ever got out of the hospital he would never again engage in any sort of pacifism. There was no suggestion of foul play last week in the death of long-ailing, wornout, beaten Nobelman Ossietsky...
...more or less unchanged from Goodwin to Smyth to Jackson, is generally held and supinely accepted. Whether this is literally so or not, the attitude indicated shows the abject respect for established thought and the consequent stultification which now paralyzes the department. Surely Goodwin has not had the last word to say on this subject, and the class receives from its lecturer a shop-worn tradition instead of an active attempt to forge valuations and conceptions in contemporary terms...