Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hopkins admitted that the public is quick to suspect tyranny in an administrative service that becomes too powerful. "The word 'bureaucracy' makes many people think of a swarm of undisciplined office-holders descending on our liberties," he said...
...getting this? Well, you had better spend more time on it." The solution to difficulties in learning does not lie in stretching the twenty-four hour day. It would be more worthwhile instead to seek why the difficulties exist. Why is it that sometimes when one sees a certain word in a language course for a fleeting moment it sticks firmly in one mind, while others, curse them, are seen repeatedly and yet fail to stay...
Contents of The Upper Room: daily Biblical quotations, brief homilies, prayers and "A Thought for the Day," each page contributed by a different churchman or layman (usually but not always a Methodist). Sold mostly by mail order, advertised mostly by word of mouth, the popularity of The Upper Room among Protestants of all faiths (it is even more widely circulated in the East and West than in the South) indicates to many a hopeful evangelical churchman the possibility of a return of the "family altar." Dr. Emmons estimates that 1,000,000 people practice its devotions daily...
Magda Lupescu, henna-haired mistress of King Carol of Rumania, always says, "The interests of Rumania weigh . . . more than any other consideration." Suiting the action to the word, she last week journeyed to Paris, put up at the Hotel Meurice (where the Duke & Duchess of Windsor were also resident) in order to be on hand for the state visit of Carol before he went on to Berlin to discuss trade relations with Field Marshal Goring...
...longer does the thoroughbred stallion snort under my loins," which means that Michael is home from the War. Michael goes to Heidelberg, grows lyric about a blonde maiden in the seat ahead: "Do I love Herta Hoik?" he asks himself. "I almost shudder at the crudeness of this word." But when she sends him a red rose: "Herta Hoik, I love you! I transform my little room into a royal palace...