Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people came to Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet. Permanent-waved and smartly turned out, Mrs. Clauson was trembling when she took her place with the other hostesses to greet guests. Captain Smith arrived, and everybody watched to see what he would do. He breezed right by Mrs. Clauson without a word. Soon, she retired to the cloakroom, and talked with the hatcheck girls. After a while, she helped them check hats & coats...
...Mayo doctors cautiously said that it was too early to use even the word treatment "except in an investigative sense." Some doctors thought that Compound E, even though it did not cure, might be used, like insulin for diabetes, to control the disease. Others feared that it could not be used for long without upsetting the body's whole glandular system. The argument would not be settled for a long time. Meanwhile, Mayo doctors warned that Compound E is very scarce, hard to produce, and may not be available generally until...
Staying closer to home, other astronomers have been studying the sun's immediate family of planets. Last week, New York University's Dr. Hans Panofsky gave the American Meteorological Society the latest word on Jupiter's atmospheric oddities. Oddest is the "red spot," a cloud 30,000 miles long and about 10,000 miles wide which goes around the planet's axis in a little less than ten hours. Its speed varies a few yards per second; so do the earth's westerly winds. Both, presumably, are reacting to a common cause-something...
...student who was privileged last year to take Professor Theodors Spencer's course in Shakespeare. I would like to add a word of endorsement to the action of the Committee of Faculty Members who have begun raising money for the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund...
Harper's Magazine landed a heavy counter-punch on the Harvard-baiting Chicago Tribune this month, when its current issue challenged the Trib on 79 major statements that the Trib made in one 2,040-word news story...