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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House-Senate Committee on the Economic Report with some fervor last week that the boom could go on through 1949. But he qualified this and almost everything else he said with such a muddy flow of technical phrases that in the end he seemed to have uttered only one word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Doctors' Dilemma | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...warning against socialism; others as a horrible example of what happens when conservatism thwarts the popular will. It remained, however, for famed Communist Biologist J. B. S. Haldane to produce the most memorable statement on the beheading of King Charles. In the course of a 1,200-word article in London's Daily Worker, Haldane achieved a twelve-word sentence which ought to be placed in a cornerstone and preserved, as epitomizing the 20th Century's zany erudition and irrelevant dogmatism. Haldane's sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Haldane's If | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Scotland, quick-thinking Laborite Herbert Morrison did his dauntless best to recapture party dignity with a cool last word: "Through the good work of the Labor Government all God's children look much the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Unsuitable | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Lakeville, Conn., he still whisks about in his wheelchair, hammering away at his subject with all the fire left in him. The world is not always with him-in fact, very littl of it is. "[We] still believe ... in the poisonous dogma that 'in the beginning was the word,'" complains the count "Infantilism is rampant . . . Pooh!" On that point, Korzybski is willing to generalize, without date, and without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Always the Etc.? | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...representation rider attached, although it does out the Council from 22 to nine members, lopping off some important sources of graft for the machine. Of course Curley, intends only to confound the opposition; he will drop his support of the plan once it gets on the ballot, send the word along the line, and the machine will be operating under the same old system after the elections in November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Battle of the Plans | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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