Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olympic Games began with a foot race, but along the way have picked up some sidelines ' that the Greeks had no word for. Now 16 other events - including yachting, fencing and cycling - have their...
Petelka's vocabulary starts with personal pronouns: I is 1; you, 2; he, 3; she, 4. Adding X to the word-number makes a plural (man is 330, men is 330X). There are no articles, conjugations of verbs or declensions of nouns (except for the possessive case). Parts of speech are indicated by zeroes (democracy, the noun, is 8730; democratize, the verb, 87300; democratic, the adjective, 873000; democratically, the adverb, 8730000). Says Petelka...
When science had done so much, what might science not do? In Massachusetts last week, many a fanner and townsman listened to word of the newest miracle, eager to believe. And the wonder grew-for a while...
...company was one of the underwriting syndicate, along with Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co., which promised to float the third Kaiser-Frazer stock issue. When Eaton called off the deal (TIME, May 3), Allen stuck to his word, handed K-F a check for some $2,500,000, ready to take the loss. (K-F later returned the check...
...bushy member of the bovine family which contributes transportation, housing (its hair is woven for tent cloth), milk, butter, meat, and a common word in crossword puzzles...