Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international problems in his speech of Oct. 19, it seemed very petty and inconsequential to refer to his pronunciation in the reporting of that speech (TIME, Nov. 1). But since General Johnson and TIME have begun it: Does it sound any worse for Mr. Landon to mispronounce the word "Roosevelt" than for Mr. Roosevelt to mispronounce the word "government," a word which he uses continually in his "fireside chats" and invariably pronounces "govermunt;" for Mr. Landon to say "attackted" than for Mr. Roosevelt to pronounce the word "again" with a long "a" (Webster...
...Chicago speech of President Roosevelt, with its use of the word "quarantine" in speaking against "world lawlessness" (TIME, Oct. 18), brought together around green tables in the Palais des Academies in Brussels last week representatives of the U. S., Britain, France, Russia, China, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Belgium, with moon-faced Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak holding the gavel...
...views which so convincingly showed them to be fundamentally orthodox that, at once, the Pope's representative declared him free from censure. Though it has since been frequently intimated to the contrary, Single-Taxer McGlynn regained his priestly standing without being obliged to retract a single word of his utterances on economics...
Beginning November 1, whenever the ticker gets five minutes behind, latest floor prices of 16 major stocks will be given precedence on the ticker, one at a time, every 30 seconds, each preceded by the word FLASH. These up-to-date figures sprinkled through the bulk of late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light...
...appreciation of his three last plays (We, the People, Judgment Day, Between Two Worlds), testy, red-headed Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein) three years ago made a public face at all dramatic critics and declared he was "disenchanted" with Broadway for good. So far he has kept his word...