Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McCay was an artist in every sense of the word and his cartoons of "Little Nemo" and "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" that appeared in Sunday newspaper supplements were the joy and delight of the youngsters of that...
...Chief Justice Hughes's majority opinion declared: "The main issue in this litigation is whether the rates as fixed by the commission's order are confiscatory." At what looked to him less like a decision than a flipflop of indecision, dissenting Justice Pierce Butler spoke a tart word: "Our decisions ought to be sufficiently definite and permanent to enable counsel usefully to advise clients...
...agents of Benito Mussolini had sown in Cairo much of what the King was trying to reap this week. The British were not in the least relieved when Ali Maher Pasha, Chief Political Chamberlain of His Majesty, also told London papers by telephone that "there is not a word of truth" in the rumors that Egypt's new Cabinet is pro-Mussolini...
...student of philosophy in general the first part alone of this undertaking makes the volume an important contribution to sound interpretations of the French philosopher. Conscious of the vagueness which surrounds the use of the word "intuition" in contemporary literature, Mr. Szathmary carefully delineates the meaning of this term in Bergson's philosophy: "In the act of intuition there is an internal response, which arises from the direct feeling of the qualities of an object...
...California, he says, the weather is always equally good so the vintage years are always the same. When he is accused of plagiarizing French wine names he claims indignantly that Burgundy is as much a descriptive word as whiskey. He also enjoys pointing out that when the disease Phylloxera virtually wiped out European vineyards between 1870 and 1880, the only thing that saved them was grafting European grape vines on the root stock of the wild vine of California...