Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grim rectitude unquestioned. He was above demagoguery. Tom Heflin in his time and Huey Long in his, both inspired Joe Robinson's contempt and he voiced it so frankly that he made them his particular enemies. He had two virtues prized above all others by professional politicians: his word was good and his loyalty unswerving. In 1928 he was made the Democratic nominee for Vice President to play a Southern conservative obligato to Al Smith's metropolitan liberalism, but four years later, fate having denied him the Vice Presidency, he became the loyal follower of Franklin Roosevelt...
...light summer reading was the 450,000-word document which President Roosevelt took with him last fortnight on his weekend cruise down the Potomac. The bulky treatise was entitled Technological Trends and National Policy, Including the Social Implications of New Inventions. Under the direction of lean-jawed Sociologist William Fielding Ogburn of the University of Chicago, the report had been prepared by a subcommittee of the science committee of the National Resources Committee. Last week with considerable fanfare and President Roosevelt's blessing it was made public...
...dynamite in that famous editorial was the little word, "sex." Two months later Mr. Bok soothed his sensitive readers with: "The forbidden word in this magazine will remain forbidden until conditions of absolute necessity force it to become otherwise." Mr. Bok permitted sex to rear its ugly head again in January 1909 when he published a full-page article by blind Helen Keller giving medical statistics of the results of syphilis and gonorrhea, but not mentioning either disease by name...
...When word that the Earhart plane was lost reached the U. S., Husband Putnam wired an appeal for a Navy search to President Roosevelt. But even before the message reached Washington, Secretary of the Navy Swanson had ordered the Navy to start hunting. By last week the search was costing $250,000 a day. The battleship Colorado hove to off the Phoenix Islands, catapulted three planes from its deck. The flyers skimmed over Gardner and McKean Islands and Carondelet Reef, saw nothing but ruined guano works and the wreck of a tramp freighter. Thousands of startled seabirds fluttered up, menacing...
...Sanskrit word for fibre is jhat. In the Indian province of Orissa a tall, reedlike plant called jhut has long been cultivated for its fibre, which is used in making sackcloth and twine. But the best place in India for jute growing is the neighboring province of Bengal, whose alluvial plains between the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers produce at least 85% of the world's crop. Last week while U. S. farmers were harvesting a bumper crop with combines (see p. 15), Bengali farmers with sickles were beginning to cut more than 2,000,000 acres of jute. When...