Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University students added their voices to the protest of employees of the Harvard Club of New York yesterday, as the Harvard Committee for Wallace sent the strikers a 50-word telegram supporting their fight for a ten percent wage increase...
...commonplace phrase in the United States. To most Americans, it is a simple suggestion that can be acted on with neither delay nor trouble. To most Americans, "food" is a word that carries little meaning, in these times compared with such words as "liberty" and "peace," or "communism" and "democracy." But in much of the rest of the world, the idea of "let's eat" is the dominant thought in the mind of every human being. When a man's food consumption averages 1,150 calories daily, he is not likely to be a communist or a democrat...
...list. Example: license No. 758,447 had been issued by the Department of Commerce for the export of a 1942 Buick car; the copy that went through the Custom House indicated that the license had been used to ship 1,000,000 pounds of flour to Brazil. The perforated word "validated," which made the license official, was forged...
...France in a whole province . . . they raised an army in the defense of all that makes human life honourable and endurable, and they inspired a loyalty and love which, with the debasement of the term 'Charity,' is hard to describe; we have now no fine enough word to depict such virtue...
...thousand word synopses of the scripts must be submitted by May 1, and announcement of the winning script will come on May 10. To the winner goes the chore of completing the final product by the end of the summer...