Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word from the West Coast. Inevitably, the islands' growth and boom brought labor troubles. There had been occasional strikes of workers before the war, but none had been very effective. Compared with conditions in many a U.S. mining town, living conditions were good; the benevolently paternal Big' Five provided free housing and free medical service, the climate was salubrious. Then came Harry Bridges, the crow-beaked, fellow-traveling boss of the West Coast longshoremen, bearing another kind of gospel to Hawaii...
...word has permeated the Hub area regarding Minnesota's sextet, save that the Gophers registered two decisive wins over Colorado last winter...
Family background, in the very broadest sense of the word, shaped his first year hear. This, in combination with his section of the country, his type of community, his school, and myriad other factors made it inevitable that these fellow classmen, rather than those, should be his companions. During his upper class years the undergraduate may broaden his field of friends, or he may narrow it-this is up to the individual...
...score with his baton and shouted directions to the strings. He exhorted, implored and cursed in Italian. He sang a troublesome passage for the orchestra in his croaky voice. When the chorus mumbled, he said sharply, in Italianized English that was hard to understand: "Let me hear the words. There is not a word that has no meaning." For an erring violinist, he indulged his own brand of humor: "If you play that wrong Saturday night, I will drop dead. Then they will put you in jail for murdering me." Muttered one perspiring observer: "They will all drop dead before...
...experiments were not mere fun & games for the chimps and the psychologist. The scientific purpose: to find out if chimpanzees are capable of dealing with symbols. Much of human behavior is based on symbolism. Language, for instance, is made up of words that are symbols for objects, actions, etc. Human beings use word symbols even when thinking silently. Complete lack of symbolism would make true thinking practically impossible...