Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permit the brains and ingenuity and industry of the individual to earn more than a union scale for turning out a better-than-average day's work, the best intentions of Washington will lead us deeper into a national mess, and democracy will become only a word for radio comedians to kick around...
...Secret. In New London, Conn., a woman shopper unwittingly uttered the code word "Uranium," was handed butter by a furtive grocery clerk, was too flabbergasted to accept...
Harold Ickes resigned. In a 3,000-word statement he charged that the President's friends "resented keenly the fact. . . I told the truth." Ominously recalling the scandal of Teapot Dome, he stormed: "This kind of political pressure spiritually wrecked the Republican Party in the days of Secretary [Albert] Fall." He warned "of a cloud, now no bigger than a man's hand, that my . experience sees in the sky"- the cloud of political corruption...
...anonymous agent, Moholy has plenty of theories about art. Says he: "I don't like the word beauty. It's a depressing word. Utility and emotion and satisfaction, those are more important words. Those are the things design should give. Decisions should be made on the basis of refined, not brute, emotions. Art is the best education to refine emotions...
...Finest Organs. Also Sheet Music and Song Books." "How many reeds in a Payson and Clarke [organ]?" Jess asked him. "Forty-eight, Brother Birdwell," replied Professor Quigley, "not counting the tuba mirabilis. . . . Those reeds duplicate the human throat. They got timbre," he added ("landing on the French word the way a hen lands on the water"). "How many stops?" asked Jess. "Eight," said the professor. "And that vox humana! . . . You can hear the voice of your lost child in it. Did you ever lose a child, Brother Birdwell?" "No," said Jess. "[Then] you can hear the voice of your...