Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy and three lightweight crews lined up across the course at the start and with the word "row". Comstock's boat jumped into a lead which they never relinquished. At the finish Chace's boat was closely pressed by Carwen's with the crew paced by Lawrence following. Behind them Tom Talbot's boat and two lightweight crew came under the wire almost together, while the state-wise paced by Sanger light wells his and the lightweights behind George I've is brought up the rear in that order...
...that only the dictatorship of the proletariat can end it. That is not the same thing as what Maurin, says, but it is Marx or Lenin. Maurin has the especial merit of stating a point of view so badly that it stimulates the reader to examine closely his every word. Thus he acquaints us with the opinions of many persons less articulate than he, and the discussion of his essays among imperfectly educated people whose occupations do not allow them time for prolonged intellectual work always provides the occasion for the rapid raising of vital questions...
...Word spread through Los Angeles fortnight ago that the city's Art Association was soon to open an ultra-select exhibit of International Art, to whose vernissage none but California's double thick social cream would be invited. One day last week the invited cream, 2,000 strong, flowed fatly to the intimate opening. They came from parties given by such art-lovers as Norma Shearer and Mrs. Randolph Huntington Miner and jostled, perspired, stared at each other instead of at the pictures. After the first day, the milk of the citizenry to the number...
...years, he owns his own home and a thriving vegetable patch, turned tombstone carver about five years ago because of a vision. To friends last week he explained his conversion: "Dis here stone n' all those out there in de yard-come from God. It's de word in Jesus speakin' his mind in my mind. I mus' be one of his 'ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain't nobody do dese but me. I cain't help carvin' I jes' does it. It's like when...
...Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers. There are fighting words, especially in the South, that a textbook dare not use. To please North and South, publishers get out books on "evolution" but do not use that word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography of Thomas A. Edison lest they be attacked...