Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Valpey himself supervised play from the sidelines in a T-shirt and slacks, even though visibility was to bad that observers huddled in the pressbox could hardly see the field of play through the murk. Coach Valpey has a word for all this: "fire". It's a word that will be heard often on Soldiers Field this fall...
Preview highlights of the customs which will be passed along to the new 'Cliffedwellers include word that Barnard Hall residents serenade President Jordan and Deans Kerby-Miller and Sherman with Christmas carols and walked off with last spring's song contest with the entry, "Wellesley Has A Muddy Lake...
...blame? Partly the students. Because of the "pious sentiment" that everybody should go to college, "a halo has been cast about the word 'college,' and ... as a consequence there is a blind rush...
...Nope," the News swore, "we ain't." Then it pointed out that a four-letter word isn't necessarily simpler than a twelve-letter word. "For illustration, here are some shorties which we'd call real $7 words, and wouldn't use here at this time without explanation: adit, erg, ergo, ohm, gloze, cozen, griff, modal, mure, snash, viable." On the other hand, the News thought that most of its readers would understand fairly longish ones like "intolerable" (though "unbearable" was better), or "incompatibility" (because of divorce cases), or "vulnerable" (because of bridge being so popular...
...Well," he muttered, staring up at the constellations, "don't go too deep into Africa. Don't try to grasp her. Don't try to penetrate her. Don't get sucked into the whirlpool. The deeper you go, the more poisonous she grows. Take my word for it. You'll end by going mad . . ." Storm and Echo will give many readers the same wrung-out feeling they'd get from seeing a dozen performances of White Cargo...