Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard man named Professor Stearns. My first assignment was to write a description of our rooms. I had the great honor and distinction of having my little offering cited by him as an example of the type of thing he was hoping to get, largely because I used the word 'smite,' as in the phrase 'something smites...
Drama is not the word for "Around the World," Neither, surprisingly enough, is comedy--or musical, nor farce, nor phantasy. Orson Welles' first Mercury Theatre production in over five years is a peculiar extravaganza, conglomerated of elements from "Hellzapoppin," Barnum and Bailey's and the Ballet Russe...
...medical "intelligence system" which would spot epidemics at their source, flash the news to other stations by radio. Air travelers would be immunized before entering a disease area, overhauled thoroughly when leaving. Travelers who refused immunization would be warned that they had been exposed, alerted on symptoms; word of their exposure would precede them to their next destination, where they would be rechecked...
Behind his back, some of the faculty call him "Rufus Rex." Last week Rufus Rex-Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, 70 -quit after 24 years as president of the University of Southern California. In U.S.C.'s official handout, he struck out the word "resigned," left it reading that he had been "elevated" to chancellor, an advisory post. Three days before, a committee that claimed to represent 90% of the faculty had appealed to U.S.C.'s trustees to investigate the "indefensible, inequitable" salaries imposed by Rufus...
...track in Argentina. Britain is traditionally Argentina's best customer, and one of her chief suppliers. The railways are British-owned and operated, 5 o'clock tea at Harrods is British, futbol is British. When an Argentine pledges his honor he gives the palabra de ingles, "the word of an Englishman...