Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appliance euphemistically dubbed the W.C. is still a standby of the funsters. And in this connection it is interesting to note that these initials have been absorbed into more languages than any other English expression, second only to the American "O. K." And while the pronunciation of the magic word in German or French may not be at once recognizable, the handwriting on the wall is always plain to any literate person, thus demonstrating simultaneously the advantages of an education, and the marvellous potentialities of an international languages, such as Esperanto, to supplement that of love...
...stage at the rise of the curtain and the audience is earnestly requested to be seated in time," but not a request that "all persons refrain from the use of alcoholic liquors while attending athletic contests." Still it was an easy way in which to breathe the word around, and when the notices have been thrown away with the envelopes they will no longer be able to haunt either Princeton or her President...
...limbs had been flexed in a sort of effort to huddle up, and I had been very conscious of the cold. Then a moment came when I stretched out my legs; the sense of coldness passed away, and it was succeeded by a beautiful feeling of warmth; the word 'bask' most fitly describes my condition: I was basking in the cold. What had taken place, I suppose, was that my central nervous system had given up the fight, that the vasoconstriction had passed from my skin, and that the blood returning thither gave that sensation of warmth which...
...word "Spanish" has lost its meaning. Either a citizen is a Fascist, or a Communist, and whoever wears the opposing label must be exterminated. The Fascist supporters, who certainly do not constitute more than half the population, seem assured of "victory", but after the victory comes the attempted and perhaps impossible "liquidation" and subjection of one large section of the population by another, the accounting of the irreparable sacrifice of men and resources, the academic disputes as to whether Spain was set back three decades...
...another may overplay its hand in this game of bluff, with dire consequences for the world. Then Britain, France, and even the not-so-isolated United States will have to decide whether to play the role of the Spanish liberals and succomb, or whether steadfastly to deny the word "choose" and reassert "the middle...