Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word has come from E. Haldeman-Julius, of Girard, Kansas, publisher of the famed Little Blue Books, that TIME'S Press story on him in the Aug. 8 issue produced a fine response. "I must have heard from two thousand people by now," he said. "People wrote ordering books, sending in manuscripts, asking for racks full of books to sell. I heard from French Morocco, Brazil, and everyplace...
Sounding the Pitch. The Communist keynote - Down with Yankee Imperialism - had been anticipated long before Poet-Chairman Enrique González Martínez uttered the first word. It was sounded again & again as each delegation chairman got off a short, sharp speech...
Spreading the Word. The U.S. State Department paid the peace congress little public heed. The Mexican press all but ignored it. With the public barred after the opening day, some concluded that the congress was a flop. But Lombardo and his fellow workers had reason to be satisfied. Said a Cuban delegate: "We are working for the future and getting plenty of propaganda out of our peace movement...
...Public Health Reports, Dr. William H. Sebrell outlined the campaign's goal: not only to prevent goiter, but to spread the word that iodine is essential to bodily health. The thyroid gland takes up iodine from the bloodstream and uses it to form a hormone, thyroxine. In turn, thyroxine regulates many body functions, including heat production, brain development, sexual maturity, and the growth of hair, skin and bones. A shortage of such an element as iodine, said Dr. Sebrell, may not be indicated dramatically by serious illness: "Just as often, or oftener, the result may be lowered efficiency, nervousness...
Power of the Word. In Denver, 63-year-old Nathan Mullin, stopped by two gunmen on his way home from church, routed them by slapping one of them across the face with his Bible...