Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME is not "Curt, Clear, Complete" when it uses the word "pretty" in describing Senator D. Worth Clark, the junior Senator from Idaho. There is nothing in the reference to Senator Clark in your March 13 issue that called for any such adjective...
...studying the map of San Francisco which accompanied your article (TIME, Feb. 27), I was shocked to note the district bounded by Larkin, Mason, Turk and Ellis Streets described as the "toughest part of town," and I am roused to protest. . . . The word "tough" conjures gangsters and gunmen-a district where decent citizens would hesitate to find themselves after dark and where unescorted women would be unsafe...
...university, scholarship is not to be considered as a purely personal attainment, but as a benefit to society. It may be embedded in the printed word, and read; or in lectures and personal conferences, and heard. Ordinarily scholarship will assume both forms, and they are of equal dignity...
...Harvard seal is the usual coat of arms, containing the word "Veritas," encircled by the Latin engraving, "Sigilum Academiae Harvardianae in Nov: Ang:". The coat of arms without the inscription is perfectly correct for stationery, but with the inscription it should only be used by the University...
During the last week the Cambridge stationery stores were flooded with a letterhead very much resembling the Harvard seal. The catch was that the word "Academiae" was omitted from the inscription. But actually the omission of the word made the offense even worse, because it comes under the head of mutilating the seal...