Word: worded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...jury was fascinated. So was Judge Samuel Kaufman-he moved quietly from the bench to the witness chair to watch at close range while the master worked. Stryker agreed that his friend, Mr. Murphy, had stated the issues well-it was a case of Chambers' word against that of Alger Hiss. He began painting a word picture of Hiss-a model boy and a model student, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Harvard Law School and a protégeé of the great Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...area of agreement has been reached," said the Paris reports one minute. Next minute the word was: "Complete deadlock." The outcome of the Big Four talks at Paris was still uncertain (see below), but it remained probable that the Russians wanted a limited settlement in Europe. They wanted it not because they had stopped being Communists committed to world revolution, but because Communist progress in Europe had been checked while Communist progress in Asia was rolling right along...
...club indicated that it has received word that the ten current final clubs will accept the Bat Club into the inter club agreement...
...Even Shaw admired the two authorized biographies George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works and Bernard Shaw: Playboy and Prophet ("I had only been uncollected odds and ends," said G.B.S. "Henderson collected me"). Henderson also wrote one of the first full-length biographies of Mark Twain, a 500,000-word history of his state, and a recondite mathematics treatise, "The Derivation of the Brianchon Configuration for Two Spatial Point-Triads." Once, two universities (Oklahoma and Tulsa) offered him presidencies in the course of a single evening. Moronic Camels. Despite such offers, Archibald Henderson seldom left Chapel Hill for long. Neighbors...
...optimistic : the gross national output, as he pointed out later in the week, was still running ahead of 1948, there was still a strong demand in many lines, and price supports and unemployment benefits would cushion any decline in incomes. For the steelmakers themselves, Sawyer had a special word of cheer. "The Government," said Sawyer, "never intended to take over the steel business." He added that businessmen should be permitted to run their own enterprises without Government interference; after all, said he, "they know more about business than Government officials...