Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regarding the Polish guarantees Sir Nevile said : "Our word was our word, and we had never and would never break it. In the old days Germany's word had the same value and I quoted a passage from a German book (which Herr Hitler had read) about Field Marshal von Bliicher's exhortation to his troops when hurrying to support Wellington at Waterloo : 'Forward, my children ; I have given my word to my brother, Wellington, and you cannot wish me to break it.' Herr Hitler at once intervened to observe that things were different 125 years...
...caught Editor Landry vacationing in England. When he finally got passage home, he was forbidden to cable his family or his paper what ship he would arrive on. So he cabled Johnny Johnstone: ERROR YOUR LAST CROSSING CORRECT. Johnstone got the idea instantly, passed the word along that Landry was on the Aquitania...
...that fails, the story just starts running around in circles, from Nassau to Bali to Manhattan. Hero MacMurray is like Poet Kenneth Fearing's hero: wow he woos her, zowie he kisses her, wham he MacMurrays her. Fans fagged out with so much traveling take the producers' word for it that the happy couple have enough energy left to make another trip to Bali for the honeymoon...
...tribe are known as J and P. Most practical name-calling, so far as scientific convenience is concerned, would be to recognize each vitamin by its chemical name. Thus vitamin E would be known as alpha tocopherol, C as ascorbic acid, B² as riboflavin. But since the word vitamin is as popular with laymen as "calory" once was, chemists will probably continue in their alphabetical way until they bump into...
...practically every organ in the body, are related to a score of diseases and deformities, ranging from diabetes to bow legs. As a guide to vitamin genealogy, the American Medical Association last week published a detailed handbook* compiled by top-notch U. S. vitamin chasers, giving the last word on vitamin chemistry, deficiency diseases, treatment. Interesting facts...