Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your issue of Jan. 24 moves me profoundly to send you a word of gratitude. Your clarion call to the conscience of the nation on the evil of lynching is as potent as any sermon on goodwill...
...America. It makes me realize more fully that we do have, in addition to the duty we owe to our own people, an additional duty to the rest of the world. Things have been going on in other countries, things which are not spiritual in any sense of the word-and that is putting it mildly...
When a person wants to bet in a pool he writes the promoter for the week's selection. He usually has a choice of six or seven different combinations, may bet anything from a penny to a pound. There are three cardinal requisites for an "investor" (the word bettor is shunned): He or she must be over 21, must not "invest" with cash, must never visit the promoter's premises. To circumvent England's Betting & Lotteries Act, all transactions are on credit, cash is sent the following week. If an investor fails to follow up with cash...
Trying to find out why inefficient readers read poorly, Professor Buswell discovered that many of them "vocalized," i. e., moved their lips or otherwise indicated that they were laboriously pronouncing one word at a time instead of taking in several. He tested his subjects with a passage of tongue-twisters. Because tongue-twisters make silent readers as well as lip-movers vocalize, they slowed down the efficient readers more than the inefficient ones. From this test Dr. Buswell concluded that the schools' old oral method of teaching reading was partly responsible for people's bad reading habits...
...first place, no one has ever heard of "lexicon", which, we are informed, is a cross between a spelling game and a cross word puzzle. It is rumored that this game, however, is going to be placed on the market by a game company, and that, purely by co-incidence, Lampy has just signed an extensive advertising contract with this same company...