Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanation: the King, symbol of the nation, was simply making friends with men who might be needed in a crisis. This could be gracefully done under the sponsorship of an elder statesman no longer in active politics. No newspaper printed the diners' names, Buckingham Palace having passed the word down that they should be omitted from news stories to prevent "unfortunate speculation...
...German Jews and all empirical [observational and experimental] scientists. The charge that theory leads to a crippling of experimental research is ... a denial of the whole history of modern physics. From Copernicus and Kepler on, all the great figures in Western science have insisted, in deed or in word, upon the futility of experimental research divorced from theory...
...young singing von Trapps barnstormed the Middle West and South, surprised many a gas-station attendant with their dirndl dresses and Lederhosen. Last week they wound up in Manhattan, singing a program of Renaissance music and Austrian folk songs at Town Hall. Manhattan critics found their singing the last word in freshness and refinement...
Once the most heroic living name in the U. S., Lindbergh is now a hated word in Communist, Jewish and other anti-Nazi groups. With Charles Augustus Lindbergh taking Nazi medals and househunting in Berlin, Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., last week paid the new anti-Lindberghism the deference of dropping its soubriquet of "The Lindbergh Line...
...dictionary, hid himself away in the Swiss Alps, where he labored for more than six years in an isolated house crammed with books and files. There, working from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., day after day, intrepid Lexicographer Scholes laboriously wrote out the whole of his million-word book. When he had finished, he had covered 132 acres of paper weighing ten tons. Scholarly Scholes's one-man Companion had one ingredient that made it unique among music dictionaries: charm. Only half the size of the two U. S. dictionaries, it is a masterpiece of condensation...