Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prices. By renting space in the new company's elevators, farmers can hold off for better prices from middlemen, and Brazil will have to import less wheat. Another joint company has set up four model hog farms in São Paulo State, where farmers can get the word on scientific breeding and feeding. Local packers on the lookout for better meat have been persuaded to invest heavily in this outfit...
Noting that "Dr. Lee de Forest, one of radio's pioneers, has described the new eater of evenings as a 'Benign Frankenstein,' " the FORUM wonders if there are not "many who would question his use of the word benign." Is there any basis for optimism? "The U.S., essentially unchanged by such other modern advances as the supersonic airplane and the super-septic tank, may survive television. A remote possibility...
There is even disagreement on the Bible's very first verse, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Say the Protestants: "The fuller Biblical doctrine that God created the world out of nothing is not here developed." Say the Catholics: "Both the Hebrew word and the context show that a real creation, i.e., a making out of nothing, is meant...
Medium Good. Was this system reliable? Goldsmith retorted: "I have seen it work time after time." Besides, he added with solemnity, only recently the late J. P. Morgan had passed on word, through a medium, that Goldsmith was doing fine. Goldsmith's customers thought so, too. When the investigators wrote to some of his clients, they had nothing but praise. "Uncanny predictions," wrote a New York Stock Exchange member. "Sound understanding," echoed a Boston broker. "There is nothing that touches it," said a Wall Street securities dealer...
...that's not the attitude down here. Somehow, he word has gotten around that "Harvard is loaded," and Columbia coach Lou Little will assure you that he spends sleepless nights worrying about such Crimson stars as Gannon, Moffle, Kenary, Drvaric, Houston, Rodis, Fioritino, DiBlasio, and Guthrie, who he feels could make Harvard tougher then Yale and the equal of Rutgers...